Brocade 48000 Director

A High-Performance, Highly Reliable Solution for Enterprise SANs

Utilized in thousands of enterprise SANs worldwide, the Brocade 48000 scales non-disruptively from 32 to as many as 384 concurrently active 8 Gbit/sec or 4 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain.
It supports blades for Fibre Channel Routing and FCIP SAN extension, iSCSI host connectivity, 10Gb Fibre Channel over dark fiber, and fabric-based applications. It also connects natively and non-disruptively in Brocade B-Series and M-Series fabrics, protecting existing investments. And, to reduce total cost of ownership, the Brocade 48000 provides best-in-class energy efficiency.

Brocade 48000 Director - Fibre Channel and FICON SAN Capabilities
High Performance and Scalability
  • Outperforms all director-class competitive offerings
  • Features a high-density, bladed architecture that provides up to 384 Fibre Channel ports in a single domain and 14U enclosure, with up to 1152 ports in a single rack
  • Utilizes 8Gb or 4Gb blades with 16, 32, or 48 ports
  • Provides 64 Gbit/sec bandwidth per slot plus local switching
  • Enables up to eight 8Gb Inter-Switch Link (ISL) connections to be combined into a single, frame-balanced trunk
  • Leverages specialty blades for Fibre Channel Routing and FCIP SAN extension, 10 Gbit/sec connectivity over dark fiber, iSCSI host connections to a Fibre Channel SAN, and fabric-based applications
High Energy Efficiency
High Availability
  • Designed to support 99.999% uptime
  • No single points of failure; passive backplane; redundant control processor/core switching blades
  • Hot-pluggable components, including redundant power supplies, fans, blades, and optics
  • Non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and activation)
  • Call-home capabilities to provide remote notification of system events
Fabric-based Applications
  • Plug-in services for fabric-based storage virtualization, continuous data protection and replication, and online data migration
Multiprotocol Capabilities and Fabric Interoperability
  • Support for Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP, IPFC, and iSCSI
  • Native connectivity in Brocade B-Series and M-Series fabrics, including backward and forward compatibility
Intelligent Management and Monitoring
  • Full utilization of the Brocade Fabric OS embedded operating system
  • Flexibility to utilize Brocade DCFM Enterprise, Brocade EFCM, Brocade Fabric Manager, or the command line interface
  • Ability to leverage Brocade Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring
  • Integration with third-party management tools


END-TO-END PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY

Brocade 8Gb blades require 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.


IMPROVED CABLE MANAGEMENT

Brocade Cable Management solutions for the Brocade 48000 Director 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.

Brocade 48000 Director datasheet  

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