Brocade 48000 Director
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A powerful Director for Enterprise SAN Solutions
With state-of-the-art performance and enhanced scalability for open system and IBM mainframe enterprise SAN environments, the Brocade® 48000 Director provides unique capabilities to meet the full spectrum of mission critical requirements. It scales non-disruptively from 32 to as many as 384 concurrently active 4 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain. In addition, it supports Fibre Channel routing, FCIP, and iSCSI, and is designed for future applications and higher-speed options. The Brocade 48000 also provides industry-leading power and cooling efficiency, helping to reduce the total cost of ownership.
Supporting thousands of hosts and storage devices
With its intelligent fifth-generation ASIC, the Brocade 48000 is a reliable foundation for core-to-edge SANs, enabling fabrics capable of supporting thousands of hosts and storage devices. Whether used as a core building block for an enterprise fabric or as a standalone director, the Brocade 48000 is designed to be a reliable, high-availability solution.
The Brocade 48000 can integrate with heterogeneous environments that include IBM mainframes and open platforms with multiple operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AI X, and i5/OS. These capabilities help make it ideal for enterprise management and high-volume transaction processing applications such as ERP and data warehousing, as well as data backup, remote mirroring, and high availability clustering. |
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- Provides industry-leading 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel port speeds and features to improve enterprise storage solutions
- Improves efficiency for significant operational savings on power, cooling, and data center resources
- Meets ultra-high-availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, no single points of failure, and non-disruptive software upgrades
- Increases SAN performance with local switching and enhanced Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking
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- Delivers up to 384 ports in a single domain and a 14U enclosure with up to 1152 ports in a single rack, facilitating SAN fabrics with thousands of ports
- Provides FICON® support for IBM mainframe environments, including intermix mode on a port-by-port basis; cascaded FICON fabrics; 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec FICON speeds; N_Port Virtualization (NPIV) supporting multiple Logical Partitions (LPARs) on servers; and CUP support
- Offers industry-first 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel routing, hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for Fibre Channel over IP (FCI P), and iSCSI connectivity
- Ficon support for IBM mainfraim environments
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