Investment Protection
To help protect existing investments, Brocade switches are fully forward and backward compatible across the entire Brocade portfolio, including the Brocade DCX Backbone. This capability enables organizations to deploy 1, 2, 4, and 8Gb fabrics with highly scalable core-to-edge configurations.

Flexible and Easy to Use
Brocade standalone switch models offer flexible configurations ranging from 8 to 80 ports, and can function as core or edge switches, depending upon business requirements. View the Switch Comparison Chart.

With native E_Port interoperability across Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) and M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) devices and fabrics, Brocade switches connect to the vast majority of fabrics in operation today, allowing organizations to seamlessly integrate and scale their existing SAN infrastructures. Moreover, Brocade switches are backed by FOS and M-EOS engineering, test, and support expertise to provide reliable operation in mixed fabrics. This approach helps ensure high resource utilization, simplified management, and unmatched fabric scalability.

Brocade 2U Enterprise Switches
Brocade 5300	Maximum-performance, highest-density 2U building block for small and medium SAN consolidation and at the core and edge of enterprise fabrics Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	48, 64, 80 Yes 8Gb, 4Gb 0.43 Up to 600 km Dual
Brocade 4900	High-performance, high port-count 2U building block for SAN consolidation at the core and edge of enterprise fabrics Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	32, 48, 64 Yes 4Gb 0.68 Up to 500 km Dual
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Brocade 1U Midrange Switches
Brocade 5100	Maximum-performance, highest-density 1U building block for enterprise, department, and workgroup SANs Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	24, 32, 40 Yes 8Gb, 4Gb 0.28 Up to 3400 km Dual
Brocade 5000	High-performance, high port-count 1U building block for enterprise, department, and workgroup SANs Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	16, 24, 32 Yes 4Gb 0.55 Up to 500 km Dual
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Brocade 1U Entry-Level Switches
Brocade 300	Ideal for the starter SAN – scalable, easy-to-use, maximum-performance switch Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	8, 16, 24 Yes 8Gb, 4Gb 0.30 Up to 984 km Single (fixed)
Brocade 200E	For the starter SAN – scalable, easy-to-use, high-performance switch Visit Product Details	Ports: Ports on Demand: SFP options: Watts per Gb: Fabric distance: Power supplies:	8, 12, 16 Yes 4Gb 0.94 Up to 500 km Single (fixed)
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Brocade Extension Switches
Brocade 7500	Enterprise solution with 16 Fibre Channel ports for switching and routing and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for SAN and mainframe extension over IP Visit Product Details	Ports: SFP options: Fabric distance: Power supplies: WAN extension:	16 FC, 2 GigE 4Gb Up to 600 km (FC) Dual Yes
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Brocade Encryption Switches
Brocade Encryption Switch	Fabric-based encryption to protect valuable digital assets in enterprise environments Visit Product Details	Ports: SFP options: Power supplies: Fabric encryption:	32 FC, 2 GigE 8Gb, 4Gb Dual Yes
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Brocade provides embedded Fibre Channel Switches for use in leading vendors' blade server environments. These affordable solutions greatly reduce implementation time and cost without compromising performance.

2, 4, and 8Gb Embedded Switches are available from the following vendors.

• Dell
• Fujitsu-Siemens
• Hewlett-Packard
• Hitachi
• IBM
• Intel
• NEC

High Availability Throughout the Fabric
Brocade switches meet high-availability requirements with the Brocade 5300, Brocade 5100, Brocade 4900, and Brocade 5000 switches offering redundant, hot-pluggable components. All Brocade switches feature non-disruptive software upgrades, automatic path rerouting, and extensive diagnostics. Leveraging the Brocade networking model, these switches can provide a fabric capable of delivering overall system availability greater than 99.999 percent.

Affordable Scalability
To meet the need for scalable and affordable SAN solutions, Brocade switches are backward and forward compatible - providing a seamless migration path to 8 Gbit/sec connectivity and future technologies. In addition, support for heterogeneous environments provides much greater flexibility in utilizing existing technology resources. All switches feature flexible port configuration with Ports on Demand capabilities for fast, easy scalability.

Fast, Reliable 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec Performance
All Brocade switches offer full, non-blocking performance across all ports as well as 1:1 subscription. Organizations can also experience high performance between switches by using Brocade ISL Trunking to achieve up to 64 Gbit/sec total throughput and innovative Adaptive Networking Services to ensure QoS and optimized data flows.

Simplified Deployment and Management
Brocade switches can utilize cost-effective management solutions to optimize storage network resources, improve efficiency, and reduce TCO. They are designed for easy deployment, management, and maintenance, leveraging tools such as the EZSwitchSetup wizard. In addition, they simplify administration through embedded Brocade Web Tools management software and a full range of SAN management software such as Brocade Fabric Manager and Brocade EFCM. These solutions enable centralized management regardless of vendor, protocol, or geography.

Excellent Value for a Variety of Environments
Designed for flexibility, Brocade switches provide a low-cost solution for DAS-to-SAN migration, small SAN islands, NAS back ends, and the edge of core-to-edge enterprise SANs. As a result, these switches are ideal as standalone departmental SANs or as high-performance edge switches in large enterprise SANs.

Fabric Routing
The Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches support full Fibre Channel routing capabilities with the addition of the Fibre Channel Integrated Routing option. Using built-in routing capabilities, organizations can selectively share devices while still maintaining remote fabric isolation.

Fabric Extension
Brocade Fabric Extension Switches help maximize the performance of applications that move data between data centers, including scenarios that would benefit from optimally extending a Fibre Channel fabric over an IP network.

Fabric Encryption
The Brocade Encryption Switch enables the broad application of data-at-rest encryption to help protect information assets and ensure data confidentiality. Brocade provides unmatched performance and value with 96 Gbit/sec of encryption processing power across 32 8Gb Fibre Channel ports, seamless installation, and support for DataFort encryption and leading key management systems.