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Brocade Fabric Switches

Silkworm fabric switching and muitprotocol routing for SAN architectures

Graphics Systems International has been an authorized reseller of Brocade products, especially the Silkworm fabric switches, and can plan, integrate, and install a SAN environment deployment based on the Brocade fabric switch architecture.

Brocade is renowned for their fabric switches, and are regarded to be the gold standard in terms of reliability,interoperability, performance, and features.

Based on the FICON protocol, Brocade for fibre-channel SAN creates a flexible and intelligent storage networking architecture that is expandable and secure.

2 Gbps Director Switches

When making an investment into a large core switch, for your SAN, you want to make sure it

• inter operates with all of your application servers and storage devices
• is fully forward and backward-compatible to work with legacy equipment and future investments

The director switches are both, and features the high-end management features you would expect in a large fabric switch.

• Silkworm 24000 - 128 ports in a single domain -- Datasheet
• Silkworm 12000 - 64 ports in a dual domain -- Datasheet

Silkworm Switches

These midrange switches provide a high-performance fabric architecture for your SAN storage, and backup, mirror, and archive your digital asset repository. They include features for continuous availability, affordable scalability, and simplified management for a great value/

• SilkWorm 4100: 16, 24, or 32-port @ 4 Gbps -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 3900: 32-port @ 2Gbps -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 3850: 16-ports @ 2Gbps -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 3800: 16-port @ 2Gbps or 1Gbps -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 3250: 8-port @ 2Gbps -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 3200: 8-port @ 2Gbps or 1Gbps -- Datasheet

1Gbps Models:

• SilkWorm 2800: 16-port -- Datasheet
• SilkWorm 2400: 8-port -- Datasheet

Multiprotocol Routers

Perfect for hosting multiprotocol routing services for increased SAN connectivity and improved IT resource utilization. With services like:

• FC-FC Routing Service
• FCIP Tunneling Service
• iSCSI Gateway Service

The Brocade multiprotocol routers can provide a flexible foundation for implementing a utility computing infrastructure and efficient Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) system.

Datasheet (.pdf)