12-Channel 1/2/4-Gb Fibre Channel Loop Circuit with EyeOpener®
The BCM8426 is targeted at midrange to high-end storage arrays and is a 12-port Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Hub device that can be configured to connect to Fibre Channel hard disk drives in an Intelligent Bunch of Disks (iBOD) configuration. Designed specifically for low-latency performance, each port on the device has the capability of retiming or repeating to support the various configurations of back-end arbitrated loops.
The BCM8426 also features Broadcom's advanced diagnostics called Active Signal Integrity (Active-SI™) and Active Link Integrity (Active-LI™) to help detect and recover from signal impairments at both the physical and link layers of the transmitted Fibre Channel data. With built-in advanced diagnostics, these devices greatly improve RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) to the storage network. Additionally, these products are developed utilizing 0.13-micron CMOS process technology and feature small BGA packaging to reduce board space and power requirements of storage networking equipment.
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- Product Brief
BCM8426
- 12-port Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop hub device (can also be configured to connect to FC hard disk drives in an iBOD configuration)
- Each port can perform retiming or repeating to support various back-end loop configurations
- Monitors physical layer (Active-Signal Integrity) and link-layer (Active-Link Integrity) performance
- Product Brief
BCM8426
