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Brocade 5300

8 Gb Fibre Channel technology

The Brocade 5300 is an 8 Gb/sec fibre channel switch which provides the highest performance, highest availability, scalability and best investment protection to meet the needs of today´s consolidated virtual data center. With a flexible architecture that supports 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbit/sec technology with 48, 64, or 80 ports, the Brocade 5300 provides an affordable high-port-count, single-domain solution.

The sale of this product was terminated in January 2015. The successor product is Brocade 6520.

Brocade 5300

Features	Benefits
Flexible ports on demand	“Pay-as-you-grow” scalability The delivered 48 ports can easily upgrade to 64 or 80 by activating the port license
Enterprise-class availability features as hot-plug redundant fans and power supplies	Enterprise-Class availability for disaster recovery and business continuance

FC Switches

Technology	Switch	Main Features
Generation 5 (FC 16G)	Brocade 6520 Switch	Provides high scalability in an ultra-dense 96-port switch Improved availability and manageability with distributed intelligence across the network Up to eight in-flight encryption and compression ports delivering security and bandwidth savings