BROCADE 48000 DIRECTOR
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.
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.
Key features and benefits include:
- Up to 384 ports in a single domain and a 14 U enclosure with up to 1152 ports in a single rack, which provides greater scalability and reduces management complexity
- 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel port speeds for improved performance, better response time, and improved productivity
- Significant operational savings on power, cooling, and datacenter resources
- Flexibility for the widest range of workloads with 16, 32 or 48-port blades
- FICON support for IBM mainframe environments
- Full backward and forward compatibility with the entire Brocade family of products to provide investment protection for existing SAN infrastructure
- Available as a Sun System Pack, which combines the product with the right services as one offering
- Datacenter Applications
- Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery
- Backup and Restore
- Server/Storage Consolidation
- High-Availability Clustering
- Education
- Financial Services
- Global Government
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Media, Entertainment & Internet Services
- Retail
- Transportation and Travel
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