With industry-leading 4, 8, and 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel
performance, the Brocade 48000 provides high availability,
multiprotocol connectivity, and broad investment protection for
Brocade Fabric OS and Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) fabrics. It
scales non-disruptively from 32 to as many as 384 concurrently
active 4 or 8 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain.
The Brocade 48000 also
provides industry-leading power and cooling efficiency, helping to
reduce the total cost of ownership. In addition, it supports blades
for Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, and iSCSI, and is designed to
support a wide range of fabric-based applications. It also supports
the Brocade FC10-6 blade, providing 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel data
transfer for specific types of data-intensive storage applications.
Reliable Foundation
for Core-to-Edge SANs
With its
fifth-generation, high-performance architecture, the Brocade 48000
is a reliable foundation for core-to-edge SANs, enabling fabrics
capable of supporting thousands of hosts and storage devices. To
provide even higher performance, enhanced Brocade ISL Trunking
combines up to eight 8 Gbit/sec ports between switches into a
single, logical high-speed trunk running at up to 64 Gbit/sec.
Utilizing Brocade Fabric
OS, the Brocade 48000 also supports native interoperability with
existing Brocade M-EOS fabrics.
Ideal for Enterprise
Applications
The Brocade 48000 is designed to integrate with heterogeneous
environments that include IBM mainframe and open platforms with
multiple operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux,
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and i5/OS. These capabilities help make it
ideal for enterprise management and high-volume transaction
processing applications such as:
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ERP
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Data warehousing
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Data backup
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Remote mirroring
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High-availability
clustering
A Cost-effective
Platform for High-performance SAN Extension
Designed for use in the
Brocade 48000 Director, the
Brocade FR4-18i Routing Blade is the industrys first 4 Gbit/sec
Fibre Channel enterprise-class routing blade, providing routing
services and performance-optimized FCIP. The Brocade FR4-18i offers
a wide range of benefits for inter-SAN connectivity, including
long-distance SAN extension, greater resource sharing, and
simplified management.
The Brocade 48000 also supports the
Brocade FC4-16IP iSCSI Blade, which enables cost-effective,
easy-to-manage Ethernet connectivity so low-cost servers can access
high-performance Fibre Channel storage resources.
Brocade Director
Power Efficiency
Brocade directors are
the most power-efficient in the industry, with the lowest documented
power draw. They require less power per port (under 4 watts per
port) and less power per unit bandwidth than any other director.
Brocade is the only vendor to require less than one watt per Gbit/sec
of bandwidth.
Learn more about Brocade power efficiencies through this informative
ESG Lab Validation paper, or visit the
online port power calculator.
4 and 8 Gbit/sec
Fibre Channel Capabilities for Large-Scale Enterprises
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Provides a
reliable foundation for server and storage consolidation
initiatives
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Reduces IT
infrastructure complexity and associated management
costs
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Scales up to
384 ports in a single domain and a 14U enclosure with up
to 1152 ports in a single rack
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Provides
native interoperability with Brocade M-EOS fabrics
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No single
points of failure
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Fabric
Shortest Path First (FSPF) traffic rerouting
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Continuous
monitoring of environmental components
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Non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and
activation)
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Dual-redundant control processors with stateful failover
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Redundant,
hot-swappable components and redundant power and cooling
subsystems
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Error
detection and fault isolation facilities
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Call-home
capabilities to provide remote notification of system
events
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Intelligent
SAN Management
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Centralized
management
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Heterogeneous device connectivity
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Automatic
data routing and rerouting
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Self-healing
ISL Trunking capabilities
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Intelligent
fifth-generation ASIC
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Supports
open systems and IBM mainframe environments
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Supports
intermix mode
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Supports
cascaded FICON fabrics at 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbit/sec FICON
speeds; N_Port Virtualization (NPIV) supporting multiple
Logical Partitions (LPARs) on servers; and CUP
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Enables
hardware-enforced zoning by World Wide Name (WWN)
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Provides
secure Telnet access through SSH (Secure Shell)
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Utilizes
Brocade Web Tools over a secure browser using the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
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Investment
Protection and Interoperability
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Full
backward and forward compatibility with the entire
Brocade family of products
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Field-upgradeable
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Fibre
Channel routing, hardware-assisted traffic forwarding
for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), and iSCSI connectivity
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