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New Feature Descriptions New FCIP Features on Brocade 7840 In addition to the existing FCIP features supported on Brocade 7800 and FX8-24, FOS v7.3 supports the following new FCIP features on Brocade 7840.  Support maximum 40G WAN throughput.  Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port.  Non-disruptive firmware download.  Fabric Vision for Extension. o ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports. o Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) for FCIP QoS, tunnels, and circuits. o Full Flow Vision capabilities on all FC ports.  Ethernet Jumbo Frame  IPSec enhancement  Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) enhancements  Increased compression performance  Path MTU Discovery  Stream based flow control  Out of order TCP delivery  WAN test tool Support maximum 40G WAN throughput FOS v7.3 supports maximum 40G WAN throughput on Brocade 7840. The maximum throughput is supported with two WAN Rate Upgrade licenses. The base configuration without either WAN upgrade license supports maximum 5G WAN throughput. Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port FOS v7.3 supports on Brocade 7840 10 VE mode with maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port and 20 VE mode with maximum 10G bandwidth on a VE port. End users can create single FCIP circuit with 20G bandwidth or create multiple circuits to load balance with different bandwidths that sum to 20G. Non-disruptive Firmware Download FOS v7.3 supports firmware download on Brocade 7840 without disruption to FCIP links. During a nondisruptive firmware download, throughput of individual FCIP tunnels are maintained, while the total bandwidth is limited to half of the maximum bandwidth supported on the platform. Fabric Vision for Extension FOS v7.3 supports and expands Fabric Vision features for Brocade 7840 Extension platform. These include:  ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports to diagnose FC link optics and cable problems.  Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) enhancements to provide pre-defined threshold and alerting rules for FCIP statistics at QoS level, tunnel level, and circuit level and capture FCIP specific violations in MAPS dashboard.  Full Flow Vision feature support on all FC ports to provide broad visibility, deep insight, and preproduction validation for traffic between data centers across FCIP links. Ethernet Jumbo Frame FOS v7.3 supports a Jumbo IP frame with MTU up to 9216 bytes on Brocade 7840. IPSec Enhancements Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0 Page 7 of 55

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Fabric OS v7.3.0a Release Notes v2.0
Page 7 of 55
New Feature Descriptions
New FCIP Features on Brocade 7840
In addition to the existing FCIP features supported on Brocade 7800 and FX8-24, FOS v7.3 supports the
following new FCIP features on Brocade 7840.
Support maximum 40G WAN throughput.
Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port.
Non-disruptive firmware download.
Fabric Vision for Extension.
o
ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports.
o
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) for FCIP QoS, tunnels, and circuits.
o
Full Flow Vision capabilities on all FC ports.
Ethernet Jumbo Frame
IPSec enhancement
Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) enhancements
Increased compression performance
Path MTU Discovery
Stream based flow control
Out of order TCP delivery
WAN test tool
Support maximum 40G WAN throughput
FOS v7.3 supports maximum 40G WAN throughput on Brocade 7840. The maximum throughput is supported
with two WAN Rate Upgrade licenses. The base configuration without either WAN upgrade license supports
maximum 5G WAN throughput.
Support maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port
FOS v7.3 supports on Brocade 7840 10 VE mode with maximum 20G bandwidth on a VE port and 20 VE mode
with maximum 10G bandwidth on a VE port. End users can create single FCIP circuit with 20G bandwidth or
create multiple circuits to load balance with different bandwidths that sum to 20G.
Non-disruptive Firmware Download
FOS v7.3 supports firmware download on Brocade 7840 without disruption to FCIP links. During a non-
disruptive firmware download, throughput of individual FCIP tunnels are maintained, while the total bandwidth
is limited to half of the maximum bandwidth supported on the platform.
Fabric Vision for Extension
FOS v7.3 supports and expands Fabric Vision features for Brocade 7840 Extension platform. These include:
ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) on all FC ports to diagnose FC link optics and cable problems.
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suites (MAPS) enhancements to provide pre-defined threshold and
alerting rules for FCIP statistics at QoS level, tunnel level, and circuit level and capture FCIP specific
violations in MAPS dashboard.
Full Flow Vision feature support on all FC ports to provide broad visibility, deep insight, and pre-
production validation for traffic between data centers across FCIP links.
Ethernet Jumbo Frame
FOS v7.3 supports a Jumbo IP frame with MTU up to
9216 bytes on Brocade 7840.
IPSec Enhancements