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Brocade Network Advisor The Brocade 6520 enables secure metro Maximizing Investments
Brocade Network Advisor simplifies extension to virtual private or hybrid To help optimize technology investments,
Gen 5 Fibre Channel management clouds with 10 Gbps Dense Wavelength Brocade and its partners offer complete
and helps users proactively diagnose Division Multiplexing (DWDM) link solutions that include professional
and resolve issues to maximize uptime, support, as well as in-flight encryption and services, technical support, and education.
increase operational efficiency, and data compression to optimize bandwidth For more information, contact a Brocade
reduce costs. The wizard-driven interface and minimize the risk of unauthorized sales partner or visit www.brocade.com.
dramatically reduces deployment and access. With four times more in-flight
configuration times by allowing fabrics, encryption and compression ports than
switches, and ports to be managed the Brocade 6510 Switch, the Brocade
as groups. Customizable dashboards 6520 supports higher data volumes over
graphically display performance and long distance. The switch also features
health indicators out of the box, including on-board data security and acceleration,
all data captured using Brocade Fabric minimizing the need for separate
Vision technology. To accelerate acceleration appliances to support
troubleshooting, administrators can use distance extension. Internal fault-tolerant
dashboard playback to quickly review and enterprise-class RAS features help
past events and identify problems in the minimize downtime to support mission-
fabric. In addition, dashboards and reports critical cloud environments.
can be configured to show only the most
relevant data, enabling administrators to
Brocade Global Services
Brocade Global Services has the
more efficiently prioritize their actions and
expertise to help organizations build
maintain network performance.
scalable, efficient cloud infrastructures.
A Building Block for Virtualized, Leveraging 15 years of expertise in
Private Cloud Storage storage, networking, and virtualization,
The Brocade 6520 provides a critical Brocade Global Services delivers world-
building block for today’s highly class professional services, technical
virtualized, private cloud storage support, network monitoring services,
environments. It simplifies server and education, enabling organizations
virtualization and Virtual Desktop to maximize their Brocade investments,
Infrastructure (VDI) management while accelerate new technology deployments,
meeting the high-throughput demands and optimize the performance of
of Solid State Disks (SSDs). The Brocade networking infrastructures.
6520 also supports multitenancy in cloud
environments through Virtual Fabrics,
Quality of Service (QoS), and fabric-
based zoning features.
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BROCADE 6520 SPECIFICATIONS
System Architecture
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 48-, 72-, and USB One USB port for system log file
96-port configurations (24-port increments downloads or firmware upgrades
through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses);
E, F, M, D, EX ports Fabric services Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
(MAPS); Flow Vision; Top Talkers for
Scalability Full fabric architecture with a maximum of E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric mode;
239 switches Brocade Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate
Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck
Certified maximum 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops
Detection; Brocade Advanced Zoning
in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics; larger fabrics
(default zoning, port/WWN zoning,
certified as required
broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric
Performance Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection
full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full (DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics;
duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; Enhanced BB credit recovery; Enhanced
10.53 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Group Management (EGM); FDMI; Frame
Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF;
of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds; 10 Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL
Gbps optionally programmable to fixed port Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP
speed v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change
Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit
ISL trunking Frame-based Trunking with up to eight Service (RCS); Server Application
16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps Optimization (SAO); Simple Name Server
per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch,
balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Logical Fabric)
Brocade Fabric OS.
Extension Fibre Channel, in-flight compression
Aggregate bandwidth 1,536 Gbps: 96 ports × 16 Gbps data rate (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-
GCM-256); integrated optional 10 Gbps
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns; Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity
latency between port groups is 2.1 μsec,
cut-through routing at 16 Gbps between Management
locally switched groups.
Encryption/compression is 5.5 μsec per Supported management HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC
node; Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds software Management MIB), SSH v2; Auditing,
400 ns between E_Ports (enabled by Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools;
default). Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise
or Brocade Network Advisor SAN
Maximum frame size 2,112-byte payload Professional/Professional Plus; Command
Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant;
Frame buffers 8,192 dynamically allocated Administrative Domains; trial licenses for
add-on capabilities
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch
frames) Security AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-
CHAP (between switches and end devices),
Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-2
EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); L2-compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering,
optional port type control LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding,
RADIUS, TACACS+, User-defined Role-
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure
Media types 16 Gbps: Brocade 6520 requires Brocade Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2,
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gbps SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch
SWL, LWL, ELWL
Management access 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45),
10 Gbps: Brocade 6520 requires Brocade in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10 45), and one USB port
Gbps SWL, LWL
8 Gbps: Brocade 6520 requires Brocade
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps
SWL, LWL, ELWL
Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-
optic cable and port speed
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BROCADE 6520 SPECIFICATIONS (Continued)
Management (Continued) Environment
Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, Operating environment Temperature: 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
including electrical/optical loopback, link Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-
in flow generator; POST and embedded Non-operating Temperature: −25°C to 70°C/−13°F to 158°F
online/offline diagnostics, including environment Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
environmental monitoring, FCping and
Pathinfo (FC traceroute), frame viewer, non- Operating altitude Up to 3,000 m (9,842 ft)
disruptive daemon restart, port mirroring,
optics health monitoring, power monitoring, Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot
Detection (RRD) Shock Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
Non-operating: Half sine, 33 G 11 ms,
Mechanical
3/eg axis
Enclosure Front-to-back airflow; power from back, 2U
Vibration Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random,
Back-to-front airflow; power from back, 2U 5 Hz to 500 Hz
Size Width: 429.25 mm (16.90 in.) Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random,
5 Hz to 500 Hz
Height: 86.74 mm (3.42 in.)
Depth: 609.75 mm (24.01 in.) Heat dissipation 96 ports at 1,582 BTU/hr
System weight 16.92 kg (37.3 lb) with two power supply Airflow Three hot-swappable, redundant fans;
FRUs, without transceivers reversible airflow options (front-to-back and
back-to-front); maximum 109 CFM (cu. ft./
min); nominal 33 CFM
Power
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equipment, equipment features, or service offered or to be offered by Brocade. Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this
document at any time, without notice, and assumes no responsibility for its use. This information document describes features that
may not be currently available. Contact a Brocade sales office for information on feature and product availability. Export of technical
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ADX, Brocade, Brocade Assurance, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, HyperEdge, ICX, MLX, MyBrocade, OpenScript,
The Effortless Network, VCS, VDX, Vplane, and Vyatta are registered trademarks, and Fabric Vision and vADX are trademarks
of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. Other brands, products, or service
names mentioned may be trademarks of others.
Notice: This document is for informational purposes only and does not set forth any warranty, expressed or implied, concerning any
equipment, equipment features, or service offered or to be offered by Brocade. Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this
document at any time, without notice, and assumes no responsibility for its use. This information document describes features that
may not be currently available. Contact a Brocade sales office for information on feature and product availability. Export of technical
data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government.