Brocade intros DCX-4S Backbone

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Brocade has announced the introduction of the Brocade DCX-4S Backbone, a multipurpose core and edge network switching platform designed to facilitate server, storage area network (SAN), and data center consolidation that helps to reduce infrastructure and administrative costs for IT environments.

 The new Brocade DCX-4S Backbone scales to 192 ports at up to full 8 Gbit/sec speed through its four modular blade slots and leverages the same breakthrough technology as the larger model to deliver industry-leading performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. The Brocade DCX Backbone family was designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers.

 Brocade DCX-4S offers flexible deployment and investment protection in both new and existing storage networks.  It can be deployed as a lower-cost core backbone solution in midsize enterprise network environments that do not require the throughput and port density of the larger Brocade DCX Backbone. Large enterprise customers can also implement the Brocade DCX-4S at the network edge to provide complete and highly cost-effective backbone-class capabilities throughout their data centers. The Brocade DCX-4S can also connect natively to Brocade B-Series and M-Series network environments without disruption.

 Brocade DCX-4S also offers integration with several key management products, including the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager, and supports advanced features such as fabric-wide encryption for data-at-rest for disk and tape. In addition, the Brocade DCX-4S provides a full suite of Adaptive Networking features that help optimize fabric behavior and help ensure ample bandwidth for critical applications. To enable network convergence at the server edge, the Brocade DCX-4S utilizes a multiprotocol architecture that is future-built to support emerging Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) by simply adding a blade at any time that is right for the customer.

The Brocade DCX-4S leverages the newly available Brocade Fabric OS® (FOS) 6.2 release, including a new Virtual Fabrics capability that enables the logical partitioning of a physical SAN into logical fabrics. The Brocade DCX-4S also offers integration with several key management products, including the HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager, and supports advanced features such as fabric-wide encryption for data-at-rest for disk and tape. In addition, the Brocade DCX-4S provides a full suite of Adaptive Networking features that help optimize fabric behavior and help ensure ample bandwidth for critical applications. To enable network convergence at the server edge, the Brocade DCX-4S utilizes a multiprotocol architecture that is future-built to support emerging Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) by simply adding a blade at any time that is right for the customer.