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Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products 1 Intrepid 10000 Director The Intrepid 10000 Director is a fourth-generation, enterprise-class product that provides switched fabric connectivity for up to 256 Fibre Channel devices operating at 1.0625 or 2.1250 Gbps, or up to 64 devices operating at 10.2000 Gbps. The product provides highperformance scalable bandwidth, highly-available operation, redundant switched data paths, long transmission distances (up to 2,200 km using a pool of programmable buffer-to-buffer credits), and high device population. Figure 1-4 illustrates the director. Figure 1-4 Intrepid 10000 Director The director supports McDATA's non-blocking nScale™ architecture that allows the product to be flexibly partitioned into multiple (up to four) separate directors (FlexPar™ feature), each with its own management and Fibre Channel services subsystems. In addition, the director supports concurrent firmware downloads through HotCAT technology. FlexPar-specific software can also be independently and 1-12 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual