The Brocade DCX Backbone is the Fibre Channel industry's first 8 Gbit/sec director, and the first to be able to deliver true 4 Gbit/sec on every port. Brocade continues to lead the industry in many different categories, including architecture, internal usable bandwidth, connectivity and power efficiency. Click on the topics to the left or the tools below.

Who is more power efficient, Brocade or Cisco? Who delivers more bandwidth? Try the Brocade Power & Bandwidth Calculator, and read the ESG Lab Validation Paper.

Running into power and cooling constraints in your data center? Learn how Brocade can help.

Learn about the architecture of the highest-performing director in the industry.