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Standards Leadership

Brocade works with industry-leading organizations to facilitate the development of standards, technologies, products, and services designed to simplify data center infrastructure management and implementation. Brocade has a long history of being a major contributor to the evolution of industry standards ranging from Fibre Channel communication technology to storage network interoperability and management. As Brocade continues to expand its presence in the Ethernet space, the company's participation in associated standards groups continues to grow as well.

Current Contributions to T11

*Indicates under development

Acronym Title Key Contributor Editor
FC-FS-3 Fibre Channel - Framing and Signaling - 3 x  
FC-PI-5 Fibre Channel  - Physical Interfaces - 5 x  
FC-PI-6* Fibre Channel  - Physical Interfaces - 6 x  
FC-MSQS Fibre Channel - Methodologies For Signal Quality Specification x  
FC-MSQS-2* Fibre Channel - Methodologies For Signal Quality Specification - 2 x  
FC-EE* Fibre Channel - Energy Efficiency x  
FC-GS-6 Fibre Channel - Generic Services - 6 x  
FC-GS-7* Fibre Channel - Generic Services - 7 x  
FC-SW-5 Fibre Channel - Switch Fabric - 5   x
FC-SW-6* Fibre Channel - Switch Fabric - 6   x
FC-BB-5 Fibre Channel - Backbone - 5   x
FC-BB-6* Fibre Channel - Backbone - 6   x
FC-IFR Fibre Channel - Inter - Fabric Routing   x
FC-MI-2 Fibre Channel - Methodologies for Interconnects - 2 x  
FC-MI-3* Fibre Channel - Methodologies for Interconnects - 3   x
FC-LS-2 Fibre Channel - Link Services - 2 x  
FC-DA-2 Fibre Channel - Device Attach - 2 x  
FC-SB-4 Single-Byte Command Code Sets - 4 x  
FC-SP Fibre Channel Security Protocols x  
FC-SP-2* Fibre Channel Security Protocols - 2 x  
SM-HBA-2* Host Bus Adapter Application Programming Interface 2nd Generation x  

Physical Technology Contributions

Brocade has made many contributions to the physical technologies supporting Fibre Channel.

Acronym Title Key Contributor Editor
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter x  
10GFC Fibre Channel - 10 Gbps Physical Interface   x
SFP+ Small Form-Factor Pluggable x  
QSFP+ Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable   x
XFP 10 Gigabit Small Form-Factor Pluggable x  
10X10 MSA 10 Gbps x 10 Channel MSA x  

Management Contributions

Brocade has made many contributions to the manageability standards supporting Fibre Channel.

Acronym Title Key Contributor Editor
SMI-S 1.5 SNIA Storage Management Technical Specification, Part 5 Fabric x x
SMI-S 1.6 SNIA Storage Management Technical Specification, Part 5 Fabric x x
CIM 2.28 DMTF Common Information Model x  
CIM 2.29 DMTF Common Information Model x  
RFC 2837 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard x x
RFC 3643 Fibre Channel (FC) Frame Encapsulation x  

Historical Contributions to T11

Brocade also has made many contributions throughout the years that have allowed Fibre Channel to become the technology of choice to implement SANs. These contributions include:

  • FSPF Routing
  • Name Server
  • Management Server
  • Zone Server
  • FC over IP
  • Virtual Channels
  • SCSI protocol over FC (FCP)
  • FA-MIB

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