SAN Switches
Brocade SAN switches are designed to meet the performance,
availability, scalability, and energy efficiency requirements of
organizations managing today's Storage Area Networks (SANs). Backed
by Brocade expertise, Brocade switches help organizations optimize
storage networking resources to meet the most demanding
requirements-ensuring high resource utilization, simplified
management, and unmatched fabric scalability.
Industry-leading Brocade switches are the foundation for
connecting servers and storage devices in SANs, enabling
organizations to access and share data in a high-performance,
manageable, and scalable manner.
Investment Protection
To help protect existing investments, Brocade switches are fully
forward and backward compatible across the entire Brocade
portfolio, including the Brocade DCX Backbone family. This
capability enables organizations to deploy 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps
fabrics with highly scalable core-to-edge configurations.
Flexible and Easy to Use
Brocade standalone switch models offer flexible configurations
ranging from 8 to 80 ports, and can function as core or edge
switches, depending upon business requirements.
With native E_Port interoperability across Brocade Fabric OS
(FOS) and M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) devices and fabrics, Brocade
switches connect to the vast majority of fabrics in operation
today, allowing organizations to seamlessly integrate and scale
their existing SAN infrastructures. Moreover, Brocade switches are
backed by FOS and M-EOS engineering, test, and support expertise to
provide reliable operation in mixed fabrics.
Brocade Embedded Switches
Blade servers and Fibre Channel SANs maximize the benefits from
server consolidation and virtualization. Brocade is the leading
provider and innovator of embedded Fibre Channel switches for blade
servers. They simplify SAN connectivity, maximize performance and
availability, and minimize infrastructure costs.
2, 4, and 8 Gbps embedded switches are available from the
following vendors:
- Dell
- Fujitsu-Siemens
- Hewlett-Packard
- Hitachi
- IBM
- NEC
