This calculator computes environmental characteristics (AC power draw, heat generated) as well as port and bandwidth performance for the Brocade 48000 directors based on the number of blades present.

Enter number of blades in white cells in the 'Slots' colum. (Other cells are protected to prevent data entry errors.) Environmental and bandwidth metrics will be dynamically generated based on the number and type of linecards indicated. Limited error checking is in place, and errors will be indicated by a red field.

watts (DC) ports GbE lbs Local Switching Blades Watts (DC)         bandwidth groups     Front facing director blades FC4-16 - 16-port 4Gbps switching blade 33 16 n/a 6 64 1   FC4-32 - 32-port 4Gbps switching blade 53 32 n/a 6.8 128 2   FC4-48 - 48-port 4Gbps switching blade 73 48 n/a 7 192 2   FR4-18i - 16+2, Fibre Channel Routing + FCIP blade 175 16 2 7.5 66 2   FC4-16IP - 8+8, iSCSI to FC gateway + FC switching blade 140 8 8 7 40 1   FC10-6 - 6-port 10Gbs FC switching blade 151 6 n/a 7 60 2   CP4 - Control Processor 63     6.8     2 126 Chassis infrastructure Components Blower Assembly 45     8.8     3 135 Chassis       104     1   1000W DC power supply Power Budget (DC Watts)       7     4 4000

Brocade 48000 Characteristics port utilization total 4Gb FC ports: ports total FC ports: ports used blade slots: of 8 open blade slots:   system power and environmentals DC watts: DC AC watts: AC   % efficiency BTU: /hr carbon footprint: metric tonnes of CO2 / year power efficiency watts / port:   watts / Gb:   power supplies min power supplies for operation: power supplies required for supported HA: bandwidth possible 32Gb trunks: total local switching groups:   total local switching bandwidth: Gbit/sec configured backplane switching bandwidth: Gbit/sec usable chassis switching bandwidth: Gbit/sec backplane bandwidth per director slot: 64 Gbit/sec other ports total usable FCIP GbE ports:   total usable FCIP tunnels:   total possible iSCSI initiators:   iSCSI initiators per port:   10Gb FC ports   weight lbs   kg