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Silkworm 48000
Brocade SilkWorm 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.
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 4 Gbit/sec ports between switches into a single, logical high-speed trunk running at up to 32 Gbit/sec.
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:
- ERP
- Data warehousing
- Data backup
- Remote mirroring
- High-availability clustering
A Cost-effective Platform for High-performance SAN Extension
Designed for use in the Brocade 48000 Director, the Brocade 48000 Director Blade FR4-18i is the industry's 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 module, which enables cost-effective, easy-to-manage Ethernet connectivity so low-cost servers can access high-performance Fibre Channel storage resources.
4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Director for Large-Scale Enterprise
Consolidation
- Provides a reliable foundation for server and storage consolidation initiatives
Reduces IT infrastructure complexity and associated management costs
- Scales up to 384 ports in a single domain and a 14U enclosure with up to 1152 ports in a single rack
- Ultra-High Availability No single points of failure
- Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) traffic rerouting
- Continuous monitoring of environmental components
- Non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and activation)
- Dual-redundant control processors with stateful failover
- Redundant, hot-swappable components and redundant power and cooling subsystems
- Error detection and fault isolation facilities
Call-home capabilities to provide remote notification of system events
- Intelligent SAN Management Centralized management
- Heterogeneous device connectivity
- Automatic data routing and rerouting
- Self-healing ISL Trunking capabilities
- Intelligent fifth-generation ASIC
FICON Support Supports open systems and IBM mainframe environments
- Supports intermix mode
- Supports cascaded FICON fabrics at 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec FICON speeds;
- N_Port Virtualization (NPIV) supporting multiple Logical Partitions (LPARs) on servers; and CUP
- Advanced Security Enables hardware-enforced zoning by World Wide Name (WWN)
- Provides secure Telnet access through SSH (Secure Shell)
- Utilizes Brocade Web Tools over a secure browser using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
Investment Protection and Interoperability
- Full backward and forward compatibility with the entire Brocade family of products
- Field-upgradeable
- 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel routing, hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), and iSCSI connectivity
- Advanced Fabric Services Secure Fabric OS
- Advanced Performance Monitoring
- Extended Fabrics
- Advanced Zoning
- Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking
- Remote Switch
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