The Brocade 7500 SAN Router
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An Integrated Platform for Enterprise Consolidation and Business Continuity
Many of today’s IT organizations have implemented multiple Storage Area Network SAN) islands to support specific applications, projects, and sites throughout their enterprises. With the Brocade® 7500 SAN Router, these organizations can now interconnect their SAN islands for greater resource utilization and long-distance extension. By providing this advanced level of connectivity without the associated risk and complexity of physically merging SAN islands into a single large fabric, the Brocade 7500 supports strategic business initiatives such as disaster recovery, data migration, and ongoing technology upgrades.
Maximizing SAN Investments
The Brocade 7500 combines the industry’s first 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel routing capability with powerful hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). The switch features 16 Fibre Channel ports and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports—delivering high performance to run storage applications at line-rate speed with either protocol. By integrating these services in a single platform, the Brocade 7500 offers a wide range of benefits for inter-SAN connectivity, including long-distance SAN extension, greater resource sharing (either locally or across geographical areas), and simplified management. |
