c7000 midplane bandwidth maximum

[chuckk281]

Samuel had a midplane question:

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Is there any documentation listing the limitation of bandwidth over a single copper trace on the c7000 mid-plane?

I believe in a training for Infiniband c-class switches I heard the trace limit is 96Gb, but as of now have been unable to locate any document confirming this.

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Reply from Dan:

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Here is a Doc that covers the nitty gritty of the c7000 and it has specirfics around this.

HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00810839/c00810839.pdf

First half or so of the doc spends a lot of time on Midplane and signaling.

Overall the midplane (today) had 5 terabits per second.

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Any other comments or questions?

[Jorge_Elizalde]

Hi,

This question was made long ago, but I'm surely that will serve someone.

HP BladeSystem design.

  ...midplane with aggregate bandwidth of up to 7 Tbps...

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx%2F4AA4-8125ENW.pdf

(August 2014)

Best Regards.