Brocade 6510 BR-6510-24-8G-R Data Sheet

Fabric services 

 

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); 

Flow Vision; Brocade Advanced Performance 

Monitoring (APM) (including Top Talkers for 

E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric mode); Brocade 

Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, 

Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection; 

Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/

WWN zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric 

Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection 

(DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB 

credit recovery; Brocade Fabric Watch; FDMI; 

Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; 

FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL 

Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP 

v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change 

Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service 

(RCS); Server Application Optimization (SAO); 

Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics 

(Logical Switch, Logical Fabric)

Extension

Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade 

LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256); integrated 

optional 10 Gbps Fibre Channel for DWDM  

MAN connectivity

Management

Supported management 

software

HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), 

SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web 

Tools, APM, Brocade Fabric Watch; Brocade 

Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade 

Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional 

Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S 

compliant; Administrative Domains; trial 

licenses for add-on capabilities

Security

AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-CHAP 

(between switches and end devices), FCAP 

switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, 

HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, 

OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, 

User-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), 

Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, 

SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch

Management access

10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre 

Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port

Diagnostics

ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, 

including electrical/optical loopback, link 

traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in 

flow generator; POST and embedded online/

offline diagnostics, including environmental 

monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), 

frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart, 

port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power 

monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling 

Reboot Detection (RRD)

Mechanical

Enclosure

Front-to-back airflow; power from back, 1U
Back-to-front airflow; power from back, 1U

Size

Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.)
Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)

System weight

9.16 kg (20.20 lb) with two power supply FRUs, 

without transceivers

Environment

Operating environment

Temperature: 0° to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)

Non-operating 

environment

Temperature: −25° to 70°C/−13°F to 158°F
Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)

Operating altitude

Up to 3000 m (9842 ft)

Storage altitude

Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)

Shock

Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
Non-operating: Half sine, 33 G 11 ms, 3/eg axis

Vibration

Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random,  

5 to 500 Hz

Heat dissipation

48 ports at 375 BTU/hr

Power

Power supply

Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies 

with integrated system cooling fans

AC input

85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A

AC input line frequency

47 Hz to 63 Hz

AC power consumption

110 W with all 48 ports populated with  

16 Gbps SWL optics
72 W for empty chassis with no optics

DC input

40 V to 60 V max current 4.5 A

DC power consumption

112 W with all 48 ports populated with 16 Gbps 

SWL optics
53 W for empty chassis with no optics

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