Brocade DCX Backbone

Brocade DCX Backbone

4 Gbit/sec or 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel SFPs, a single chassis provides up to 384 Fibre Channel ports. Delivers over four times the bandwidth of industry-leading Brocade SAN directors. Four Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports are used to connect two Brocade DCX chassis and preserve the equivalent of up to 128 8 Gbit/sec E_Ports for server and storage connectivity. Supports both open systems and mainframe environments.

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Residing at the core of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, the Brocade DCX Backbone is a new and highly robust class of network infrastructure that supports both open system and System z environments. Designed to meet a wide range of technology challenges for evolving enterprise data centers, the Brocade DCX combines breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.

The Brocade DCX delivers four times the internal switching performance of industry-leading Brocade SAN directors to support growing server and storage environments and to accelerate virtualization. Using 8Gb or 4Gb Fibre Channel SFPs, a single chassis provides up to 384 Fibre Channel ports. Four Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports are used to connect two Brocade DCX chassis and preserve the equivalent of up to 64 8Gb E_Ports per chassis for server and storage connectivity.

Flexibility for Maximum Efficiency
The Brocade DCX offers flexible management capabilities as well as Adaptive Networking services and fabric-based applications to help improve server and storage utilization, optimize network and application performance, and increase security. To minimize risk and costly downtime, the platform leverages the proven five-nines reliability of hundreds of thousands of Brocade SAN deployments.

The Brocade DCX operates natively with Brocade B-Series and M-Series components, extending SAN investments for maximum ROI. And it is designed to support emerging Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network protocols to provide a unified, high-performance data center fabric.

End-To-End Performance and Reliability
The Brocade DCX requires Brocade optical transceiver modules, which are available in multiple models to satisfy a wide range of speed and distance requirements. These Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) modules are optimized for Brocade 8Gb products to maximize performance, reduce power consumption, and help ensure the highest availability of mission-critical applications. Learn More

Improved Cable Management
Brocade Cable Management solutions for the Brocade DCX provides an organized, easy-to-manage cabling system for high density environments. They enable organizations to build highly scalable, flexible and cost-, space-, and energy-efficient cable infrastructures--the foundation of next generation data centers. Learn More

SAN Standards Compliance
Brocade products conform to SAN standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures. Review SAN Standards Compliance List

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The Brocade Data Center Fabric is a foundation for designing, building, and managing enterprise data centers. A critical advanced technology integrated into the fabric is Brocade Adaptive Networking services, which provides Quality of Service to ensure fabric support for critical application service levels.

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Enterprise data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by the need to reduce costs and increase performance. The evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables unified management on a common framework.

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

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This paper describes how System z users can leverage the Brocade DCX Backbone to address their most pressing business challenges while preparing for future technologies.

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This paper explores the various approaches Brocade is taking toward heterogeneous fabric connectivity following its acquisition of McDATA.

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This paper explains how the Brocade Data Center Fabric enables organizations to build next-generation data centers with reduced cost, increased flexibility, and minimized risk.