Rev 1.4
Mellanox Technologies
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Figure 2: Port Numbering
1.1
Features
The BridgeX Gateway series has the following features:
Uplink ports
• 4 ports of 40/G InfiniBand QSFP
Downlink ports
• 12 ports of 1 GigE /10 GigE Ethernet
• Down link ports are configured in groups of 3
• Down link ports within a group must run the same protocol
• A down link port group running Ethernet must run the same speed on all ports within the group
(10Gbps or 1Gbps)
1024 virtual NICs per Ethernet port
Total of 16,000 MAC addresses
Ethernet ports
• IEEE 802.3ae 10Gigabit Ethernet support
• IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree
• IEEE 802.1p QoS / COS
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery *
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP *
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Per Priority Flow Control)
• Virtual lanes support
• Jumbo Frames up to 9K support
* This feature will be available to customers in the near future.
Connectors and Cabling
• SFP+ connectors for downlink 10GigE ports
• Optical transceiver modules for SR and LR for Ethernet
• Optical modules for FC
A1
A2
A5
A3 A4
B1
B2
B5
B3 B4
C1
C2
C5
C3 C4
D1
D2
D5
D3 D4