Brocade Connectivity Services provide a comprehensive solution, incorporating bandwidth sizing, procurement, implementation, acceptance, and operation for your storage area networking requirements. Brocade understands telecommunications providers—their business models, the technology and connectivity—but is not aligned with any single carrier. By trusting network design and management to Brocade, and not to a carrier, choices are made with your best interest in mind, not to meet the requirements of a single carrier's network.

Bandwidth typically requires multiple vendors (local loops, wide area, and in-building), not only for initial installation, but also for ongoing maintenance. Brocade will manage the underlying carriers that provide the site-to-site connections (not just city-to-city), covering all components of your telecom requirement. Multi-vendor sourcing also protects you from any financial difficulties a carrier may experience, limiting your connectivity risk.

Because Brocade works with multiple service providers, we can provide diverse carriers and routing for your high availability applications. By having different carriers link your sites, you are assured that a breakdown at one carrier will not affect your applications. This is a stronger remedy than diverse routing using a service provider, whose diverse circuits typically meet up at a common hub. Brocade will obtain not only the optimal network architecture for your applications, but also the most competitive connectivity pricing.

How many times have you had to inform your telecom provider (or sub-carrier) of a connectivity problem, or perhaps a recurring issue with sluggish connections? With our Network Management Service, we see any connectivity issues before they affect your network. We proactively troubleshoot the problem, contact our carrier(s), and quickly find the root of the issue. Brocade’s inherent understanding of storage networking requirements means you don't need to spend time educating your bandwidth provider(s).

With network connectivity in support of Brocade solutions, you get a single point of accountability and management for your end-to-end solution, with the opportunity to subscribe to an industry leading Service Level Agreement to provide assurances across the application.