Brocade CR16-8 Core Switch Blade

The CR16-8 is a 16 Gbps core routing/switching blade for the Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone chassis. It interconnects the port blades and provides optical UltraScale inter-chassis link (ICL) ports.

Specifications

• Compatible only with the Brocade DCX 8510-8 (14U chassis, 8 blade slots)
• Two CR16-8 blades per chassis, both active-active
• 16 QSFP UltraScale ICL ports per blade (32 per DCX 8510-8 chassis)
• Each ICL port gives 64 Gbps (4x16 Gbps) over a QSFP; the chassis total is 2.048 Tbps
• Four Condor3 ASICs per blade; each blade connects to 128 backplane ports
• ICL ports are enabled by optional license (ICL POD)
• Requires Brocade hot-pluggable QSFP with MTP connector (50 m OM3, 100 m OM4, 2 km QSFP for long distances)
• Blade-to-blade latency of 2.1 µs; locally switched port latency of 700 ns