Brocade Fibre Channel Directors : Overview
Brocade provides enterprise-class directors for SAN environments, helping organizations meet a wide spectrum of data center infrastructure requirements. Renowned for their industry-leading performance and versatility, Brocade directors provide the high availability, FICON support, extensible bladed architecture, interoperability, advanced network security, and the manageability that today's organizations need to reduce cost and complexity.
Brocade 48000 SAN Director
The Brocade 48000 Director is the industry's leading director-class platform for enterprise SANs, delivering powerful 8Gb and 4Gb connectivity, advanced hardware and software capabilities, and "five-nines" reliability.
The Brocade 48000's modular design and high port density provides a flexible and scalable solution for large open systems and System z environments in round-the-clock data centers. Organizations can utilize it as a standalone director, at the core of a multi-switch SAN, or at the edge of a Brocade data center fabric architecture.
A High-Performance, Highly Reliable Solution for Enterprise SANs
Utilized in thousands of enterprise SANs worldwide, the Brocade 48000 scales non-disruptively from 32 to as many as 384 concurrently active 8 Gbit/s or 4 Gbit/s full-duplex ports in a single domain.
It supports blades for Fibre Channel Routing and FCIP SAN extension, iSCSI host connectivity, 10Gb Fibre Channel over dark fiber, and fabric-based applications. It also connects natively and non-disruptively in Brocade B-Series and M-Series fabrics, protecting existing investments. And, to reduce total cost of ownership, the Brocade 48000 provides best-in-class energy efficiency.
End-to-End Performance and Reliability
Brocade 8Gb blades require Brocade optical transceiver modules, which are available in multiple models to satisfy a wide range of speed and distance requirements. These Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) modules are optimized for Brocade 8Gb products to maximize performance, reduce power consumption, and help ensure the highest availability of mission-critical applications.
Improved Cable Management
Brocade Cable Management solutions for the Brocade 48000 Director provides an organized, easy-to-manage cabling system for high density environments. They enable organizations to build highly scalable, flexible and cost-, space-, and energy-efficient cable infrastructures--the foundation of next generation data centers.
SAN Standards Compliance - Software
Brocade products conform to SAN standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures.
