Brocade has launched a range of networking products to send customers down the road to cloud computing adoption.
Putting the routers and switches unveiled at its Technology Summit Day in San Jose under the umbrella of its new CloudPlex strategy, the networking giant claimed it was leading the way in making the cloud open and available for businesses.
During a speech at the conference, Jason Nolet, vice president of datacentre and enterprise networking at Brocade, said the growth of virtualisation and consolidation had led to more pressure on networks and bandwidth.
The Brocade DCX 8510 SAN Backbone housed 384 16Gbps ports, allowing for an aggregate bandwidth of 8TB – something Nolet claimed was unmatched by competitors.
By changing the connection to fibre from copper, the company said it had freed a third of slots allowing for more server and storage connections. And it had services to encrypt and compress data, as well as a low energy consumption of 0.27 watts.
The Brocade 6510 switch was aimed at small and medium businesses. Coming with up to 48 16GB fibre channel ports, companies can start as small as 24. Brocade claimed the performance of the switch has increased by 40 percent on 10GB Ethernet and ran on just 0.14 watts for a gigabit a second.
“All existing DCX chassis can be upgraded in the field and all of the new services, without having to rip and replace,” Nolet said.
“It’s a seamless update of line cards and software at the customers discretion.”
The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter for servers completes the line-up. Supporting fibre channel, fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Ethernet, it unites adapters, storage area networks and local networks under the Brocade Network Adviser management tool.
The new lineup will be available later this year.
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