1–Product Overview
Hardware Components
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In Figure 1-3, the FCoE adapter communicates to existing native Fibre Channel
storage because of the translation capability of the switch.
Figure 1-3. FCoE Deployment
Hardware Components
A typical 8100 Series Adapter has the following major components
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ASIC (reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor)
Nonvolatile memory (Flash)
NVRAM
Transceivers (SFP+)
LEDs
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Some adapters may have additional components not shown in this list.