Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs for System x The Brocade 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) for IBM® System x® are part of a family of high-performance FC HBA solutions. These HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of servers, storage, and SANs. The Brocade 16Gb FC Single-port and Dual-port HBAs have the following specifications: Host interface: PCI Express Gen 2 x8 Data rate: 14.025 Gbps (1600 MBps); 8.5 Gbps (800 MBps); 4.25 Gbps (400 MBps); 2.125 Gbps (200 MBps) autosensing (per port); full duplex Performance: over 500,000 IOPS per port (1,000,000 IOPS per dual-port adapter) Boot support: Boot from SAN, Fabric-based Boot LUN Discovery Protocols: SCSI-FCP, FCP-2, FCP-3, FC-SP Topology: Point-to-point (N_Port), switched fabric (N_Port) N_Port Trunking of 2×16 Gbps links into a single logical 32 Gbps link Supported media: Brocade 16 Gbps and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel LC-style pluggable (SFP+), SWL (850 nm), hot-pluggable Distance support: 15 m at 16 Gbps on 62.5/125 μm (OM1) Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) 35 m at 16 Gbps on 50/125 μm OM2 MMF 100 m at 16 Gbps on 50/125 μm OM3 MMF 125 m at 16 Gbps on 50/125 μm OM4 MMF