Brocade launches new datacenter networking solutions
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 24 September 2009, 18:42 IST
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Bangalore: Brocade, a datacenter networking solutions provider has launched two new blade switch products, expanding its DCX Backbone switching platform family. The solutions designed for enterprise datacenters, are for improving connectivity among remote sites and for server I/O consolidation, the company said in a statement. Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade - the new datacenter-to-datacenter solution designed for disaster recovery and business continuity - offers 12 fiber channel ports, 8 Gbps each, ten 1-gig Ethernet ports and up to two 10-G Ethernet ports. One or two such blades can be installed in a DCX Backbone, doubling its aggregate bandwidth to reach 40 Gbps. The new Brocade FCoE 10-24 blade is a high-density end-of-row option for I-O connectivity consolidation. It features 24 CEE ports, each pushing 10 Gbps and provides layer 2 Ethernet functionality for LAN traffic. Storage traffic is carried to the SAN through 8 Gbps fiber channel blades in DCX chassis. The announcement has come about six weeks after analyst firm Dell'Oro Group reported that North American Ethernet switch market was on the rebound from a recent slump, with second-quarter shipments increasing by about 20 percent sequentially. Brocade expanded its networking equipment portfolio during December last year by acquiring switching and routing solutions developer Foundry Networks.

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