A Day in the Life of a Fibre Channel Frame in MDS 9000
All Cisco MDS 9000 family line cards use the same process for frame forwarding. The various frame-processing stages are outlined in detail in this section (see Figure 7-3).
Figure 7-3 Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Packet Flow
1. Ingress PHY/MAC Modules: Fibre Channel frames enter the switch front-panel optical Fibre Channel ports through Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) optics for Fibre Channel interfaces or X2 transceiver optical modules for 10 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces. Each front-panel ...
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