Designed to meet any application needs, the Brocade M6140 is the only single-stage director to support transfer rates from 1 Gb/sec to 10 Gb/sec. The Brocade M6140 also provides exceptional flexibility by meeting the connectivity demands of both open systems and mainframe FICON environments.
Key Specifications
140 ports
4 Gb/sec and 10 Gb/sec full duplex port speeds
Rack-mountable, 19-inch EIA rack
Supports Fibre Channel and FICON
Hot-plug redundant power supplies, fans, processors
75 miles (120 km) @ 1 Gb/sec), 37 miles (60 km) @ 2 Gb/sec
Capacity
Ports per chassis
140 ports
Availability
High-availability features
HotCAT online, non-disruptive firmware upgrades and activation
99.999%
Hot-plug, redundant power supplies and cooling
Hot-plug small form factor (SFP) transceivers, port modules
Online diagnostics Fault isolation tools for network-wide activity
Serviceability
Hot-plug power and cooling modules
Hot-plug optics
HotCAT firmware upgrade
Call home, email (with Brocade software)
Maintenance port (DSUB)
Thermal Protection
Unit, port and FRU beaconing
Hot plug, industry standard LC
Small Form Factor (SFP)
Supported optical media types/distances
Short-wave: 500 m (1,640 ft) 1 Gb/sec
Short-wave: 300 m (1,148 ft) 2 Gb/sec
Long-wave: 10 km (6.2 miles)
With repeaters: 100 km (60 miles)
Access
In-band Ethernet (10/100 Mbps)
Management
Management options
SANavigator Software
Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM)
SA OS/390 through FICON Management Server (CUP)
SNMP
Open Systems Management Server (OSMS)
Fabric Services
Simple name server
In order delivery (Class 2,3)
Management Server (optional)
Broadcast
Name server zoning
Diagnostics
Power on self test (POST)
Online port, CTP, SBAR
Internal & external loopback
Online system health
