Brocade SilkWorm 12000

Fibre Director Switch

Available in 32-port, 64-port or dual 64-port configurations, the SilkWorm 12000 is capable of performing as a core switch or a standalone or edge switch in you Storage Area Network (SAN). These fabric switches can support open systems Fibre Channel and FICON protocol traffic at both 1Gbps and 2Gbps speeds for heterogeneous device connectivity. Availability is enhanced with an architecture that features no single point of failure with full hardware redundancy, and meets the enterprise-class “five nines” availability requirement.This platform provides the core backbone switch capabilities to allow SANs to scale to well over 1,000 ports.

Other Features:

• hot-pluggable components
• non-disruptive software upgrades, or control processor failover
• dual out-of-band management connections
• automatic data routing and re-routing
• self-healing ISL Trunking capabilities

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