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Greater Flexibility in the Data Center

To help you reduce effort, costs, and complexity throughout your data center, Brocade continues to develop a wide range of innovative new storage networking solutions. These reliable, high-performance solutions leverage unique capabilities to address your most critical business requirements.

The new offerings include:

  • Brocade DCX-4S Backbone: A multipurpose core and edge switching solution that extends the industry-leading Brocade DCX Backbone family
  • Brocade Fabric OS 6.2:The latest release featuring a new Virtual Fabrics capability along with numerous scalability, performance, and security enhancements
  • Data Encryption: New capabilities that extend fabric-based encryption to data on tape and include additional key management integration
  • Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) 10.1: Additional support for the Brocade DCX-4S and Fabric OS 6.2 enhancements, plus features to simplify network administration
New 192-Port Backbone

Leveraging the same breakthrough technology as the larger 384-port Brocade DCX model, the new Brocade DCX-4S Backbone scales to 192 ports at full 8 Gbit/sec speed using four modular blade slots. The Brocade DCX-4S is designed for the core of midsize enterprise network environments supporting open systems and System z, and for the edge of larger networks.

It supports this wide range of environments with exceptional levels of performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. These capabilities facilitate server, SAN, and data center consolidation with the added benefit of reduced infrastructure footprint and administrative costs.

Like the 384-port model, the Brocade DCX-4S offers integrated routing, high-speed Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs), fabric-based encryption, Adaptive Networking, native connectivity in B- or M-series fabrics, and a multiprotocol architecture that is future-built to support emerging CEE and FCoE protocol options.

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Enhancements to Fabric OS

The new Brocade Fabric OS 6.2 release includes more flexible virtualization capabilities as well as enhancements for Fibre Channel Routing, SAN extension using FCIP, and security—along with several additional improvements.

The new Brocade Virtual Fabrics feature is an easy-to-manage implementation based on the ANSI standard that enables you to partition a physical SAN into logical fabrics for greater resource utilization and cost savings in multifabric environments.

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Data Encryption Updates

Whether you use the Brocade Encryption Switch or up to four Brocade FS8-18 Encryption Blades in a Brocade DCX Backbone, you can now encrypt data on tape and utilize tape compression. You can also leverage integrated key management support, which now includes the HP Secure Key Management (SKM) hardware appliance. To give you even greater flexibility, support for leading backup applications now extends to BakBone NetVault and HP Data Protector.

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Simplified Fabric Management with DCFM

To help you reduce complexity, maximize fabric availability, and improve operating efficiency, the new Brocade DCFM 10.1 release provides support for the new Brocade DCX-4S, configuration of Virtual Fabrics using Fabric OS 6.2, and numerous enhancements for performance management (such as Top Talkers), zoning, FICON administration, and other network needs

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Press Releases

Brocade Extends Its Industry-leading Backbone-Class Family with the Brocade DCX-4S Backbone

Brocade Brings to Market a New Class of High-Performance Server Connectivity Solutions to Innovate Data Centers

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Abstract:

Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) connectivity is a unique Brocade DCX feature that provides short-distance connectivity among two or more backbone chassis — a good option for customers who want to build a powerful core without sacrificing device ports for Inter-Switch Link (ISL) connectivity.

Abstract:

Describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how the Brocade DCX Backbone platform can be added non-disruptively into the core of existing SANs and new data center fabrics.