CEE and FCoE Products

Brocade offers the industry's leading end-to-end CEE/FCoE solution. The Brocade offering includes 10 GbE single- and dual-port 1010/1020 CNAs, the top-of-rack CEE/FCoE Brocade 8000 Switch, and the end-of-row CEE/FCoE Brocade FCOE10-24 Blade for the Brocade DCX Backbone family. The Brocade DCFM application provides unified management of the entire product line.

Brocade CEE/FCoE products provide high-performance, cut-through and non-blocking architecture, allowing organizations to achieve line-rate performance on both CEE and Fibre Channel ports. In addition, organizations can seamlessly introduce CEE and FCoE technologies to their data centers without disrupting existing SANs or IT management practices.

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Brocade offers the industry's most extensive end-to-end Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offering. With such a wide array of products, organizations can choose from top-of-rack and end-of-row solutions. Brocade also offers the highest-performance single-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Brocade CEE/FCoE products are unified under the Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application that also manages existing Brocade SANs.

Brocade 8000 Switch

The Brocade 8000 Switch is a link layer (Layer 2) switch with a cut-through and non blocking architecture. This multiprotocol switch supports Ethernet, CEE, Fibre Channel, and FCoE protocols, providing industry-leading top-of-rack server I/O consolidation solutions in a compact 1U form factor. The Brocade 8000 features 24 10 Gbps CEE ports and eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports. Using its built-in FCoE hardware engine, the Brocade 8000 inspects incoming converged Ethernet and storage traffic, separates it into storage and networking streams, then directs each stream to its proper destination. Ethernet, or networking, traffic gets directed to LANs through the 24 CEE ports, while storage traffic gets switched to Fibre Channel SANs over the switch's Fibre Channel ports.

The Brocade 8000 provides a top-of-rack solution for deploying new access layer servers with Tier 3 and some Tier 2 applications.

Brocade FCOE10-24 Blade

The Brocade FCOE10-24 is a CEE/FCoE blade for Brocade DCX and DCX-4S Backbone platforms. The blade is a link layer (Layer 2) switch with cut-through and non-blocking architecture that enables line-rate throughput on all of its 24 10 Gbps CEE ports. The Brocade FCOE10-24 features a hardware FCoE engine that provides full T11 FCoE support, utilizing external Fibre Channel ports available on other Brocade DCX blades.

The Brocade FCOE10-24 provides organizations with end-of-row solutions for deploying new access layer servers with Tier 3 and some Tier 2 applications.

Brocade 1010/1020 CNAs

The Brocade 1010 (single port) and Brocade 1020 (dual port) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) provide the industry's best-in-class server connectivity for networking and Fibre Channel storage I/O consolidation, leveraging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE).

Brocade 1010/1020 CNAs replace traditional Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and Network Interface Cards (NICs) in servers with one PCIe adapter—thereby increasing ROI and reducing TCO. Combined with the top-of-rack Brocade 8000 Switch and Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM), these CNAs provide a powerful 10 Gbps solution that consolidates Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic through FCoE. This new technology helps organizations significantly reduce management, hardware, power, cooling, and maintenance costs.

Brocade CNAs fully support open industry standards for IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB) capabilities, including Priority-based Flow Control (PFC 802.1Qbb) and Enhanced Transmission selection (ETS 802.1Qaz).

The Brocade 1010/1020 CNAs provide advanced Ethernet performance, including IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offload, Receive Side Scaling (RSS), Header Data Split (HDS), jumbo frame support, and TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).

Brocade DCFM Application

Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) unifies the various resources available on Brocade SANs and CEE/FCoE technologies under one comprehensive management framework. With DCFM, organizations can continue to use familiar storage management tools and incorporate CEE/FCoE resources into existing environments seamlessly and without disruption to their IT practices.

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