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Brocade DCX Backbone

Brocade DCX delivers over four times the bandwidth of industry-leading Brocade SAN directors. Using 4 Gbit/sec or 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel SFPs, a single chassis provides up to 384 Fibre Channel ports. Four Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports are used to connect two Brocade DCX chassis and preserve the equivalent of up to 128 8 Gbit/sec E_Ports for server and storage connectivity.

Industry-leading Capabilities for Large Enterprises

The Brocade DCX offers flexible management capabilities as well as Adaptive Networking services and fabric-based applications to help optimize network and application performance. To minimize risk and costly downtime, the platform leverages the proven five-nines reliability of hundreds of thousands of Brocade SAN deployments.

The Brocade DCX facilitates the consolidation of server-to-server, server-to-storage, and storage-to-storage networks with highly available, lossless connectivity. In addition, it operates natively with Brocade and Brocade M-Series components, extending SAN investments for maximum ROI. And it’s future-built to support a broad range of current and emerging network protocols to form a unified, high-performance data center fabric.

Industry-leading Performance

• 8 Gbit/sec per-port, full-line-rate performance
• 13 Tbit/sec aggregate dual-chassis bandwidth (6.5 Tbit/sec for a single chassis)
• 1 Tbit/sec of aggregate ICL bandwidth
• More than five times the performance of competitive offerings

High Scalability

• High-density, bladed architecture
• Up to 384 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis
• Up to 768 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports in a dual-chassis configuration
• 544 Gbit/sec aggregate bandwidth per slot plus local switching
• Fibre Channel Integrated Routing
• Specialty blades for 10 Gbit/sec connectivity, Fibre Channel Routing over IP,  fabric-based applications

Energy Efficiency

• Less than one-half Watt per Gbit/sec
• Ten times more energy-efficient than competitive offerings

Ultra-High Availability

• Designed to support 99.999% uptime
• Passive backplane, separate and redundant control processor and core switching blades
• Hot-pluggable components, including redundant power supplies, fans, WWN cards, blades, and optics

Fabric Services and Applications

• Adaptive Networking services, including Quality of Service (QoS), Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, Top Talkers
• Plug-in services for fabric-based storage virtualization, continuous data protection and replication, and online data migration

Multiprotocol Capabilities and Fabric Interoperability

• Support for Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP, and IPFC
• Designed for future 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Native connectivity in Brocade and Brocade M-Series fabrics, including backward and forward compatibility

Intelligent Management and Monitoring

• Full utilization of the Brocade Fabric OS embedded operating system
• Flexibility to utilize Brocade DCFM Enterprise, Brocade EFCM, Brocade Fabric Manager, or the command line interface
• Ability to leverage Brocade Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring
• Integration with third-party management tools