Designed to support the SAN requirements of medium-to large sized workgroups as well as that of large enterprises, the Connectrix DS-6620B offers forty-eight SFP+ ports and four QSFP ports in a 1U form factor. Two base models are available which have 24 active 32Gb/s or 16Gb/s ports, populated with 32Gb or 16Gb/s shortwave SFPs. QSFP ports can be used to form dense high performance ISLs with other 32Gb/s switches or directors. QSFPs can also be configured to add up to 16 additional ports. With its speed and port density the DS-6620B can be deployed in any Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) to enable very dense fabrics in a relatively small package.
Product Paramenters
Fibre Channel Ports
The DS-6620B and DS-6620B-V2 feature 48 Fibre Channel SFP+ ports and 4 QSFP ports. There are two base models which have 24 active 32Gb/s or 16Gb/s ports, populated with 32Gb or 16Gb/s shortwave SFPs. The Ports on Demand (PoD) license activates 12 additional ports and includes 12 shortwave SFPs. The QSFP Ports On Demand license activates the four QSFP ports and contains four shortwave QSFPs. The enterprise switch model fully populates the SFP+ ports with forty-eight shortwave SFPs and comes fully licensed with the Enterprise Bundle (Fabric Watch, Trunking, Performance Monitoring, Extended Fabric, Fabric Vision).
Performance
32Gb/s SFPs can operate at 32, 16 or 8Gb/s; 16Gb/s SFPs will operate at 16, 8 and 4Gb/s
Frame Buffers
15,360 dynamically allocated
Hot swappable components
Dual power supplies with three embedded cooling fan FRUs, SFPs and QSFP optics. The fans are connected to the power supplies and are not themselves replaceable.