Brocade 48000 Director

With industry-leading 4, 8, and 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel and FICON 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 SAN extension, 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.


A 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. Other services provide additional Quality of Service (QoS) and Traffic Management capabilities to optimize fabric performance.
Utilizing Brocade Fabric OS, the Brocade 48000 also supports native interoperability with existing Brocade M-EOS fabrics