Brocade SAN Switches
Brocade SAN switches are designed to meet the performance, availability, scalability, and energy efficiency requirements of organizations managing today's SANs. Backed by Brocade expertise, Brocade switches help organizations optimize storage networking resources to meet the most demanding requirements–ensuring high resource utilization, simplified management, and unmatched fabric scalability.
At-a-Glance Product Line Comparison
| Brocade Fibre Channel Switches |
2U Enterprise Switch |
1U Enterprise Switch |
1U Entry-level Switch |
CEE/FCoE Switch |
Extension
Switch |
Encryption Switch |
Feature Comparison
* New Products |
Brocade
5300 |
Brocade
5100 |
Brocade
300 |
Brocade 8000* |
Brocade
7500 |
Brocade Encryption Switch* |
| Fibre Channel Ports |
48, 64, 80 |
24, 32, 40 |
8, 16, 24 |
8 |
16 |
32 |
| Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) Ports |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
24 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Fibre Optic SFP Options |
8Gbps, 4Gbps |
8Gbps, 4Gbps |
8Gbps, 4Gbps |
8 Gbps, 4 Gbps (FC); 10 Gbps (CEE) |
4Gbps |
8Gbps, 4Gbps |
| Switch Bandwidth |
640 Gbps |
320 Gbps |
192 Gbps |
304 Gbps |
64 Gbps |
256 Gbps |
| Watts per Gb of Bandwidth |
0.43 |
0.28 |
0.30 |
1.15 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Max. Extended Fabric Distance |
up to 600 km |
up to 3400 km |
up to 984 km |
n/a |
up to 500 km (for FC) |
up to 3000 km (for FC) |
| Power Supplies |
Dual |
Dual |
Single (fixed) |
Dual |
Dual |
Dual |
| Ports on Demand |
√ |
√ |
√ |
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Frame-based Inter-Switch
Link Trunking |
√ |
√ |
√ |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Access Gateway Mode |
|
√ |
√ |
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| Adaptive Networking |
√ |
√ |
√ |
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√ |
√ |
| Integrated Fibre Channel Routing |
√ |
√ |
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√ |
√ |
| Virtual Fabrics |
√ |
√ |
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| FICON |
√ |
√ |
|
|
√ |
√ |
| WAN Extension Capabilities |
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√ |
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| Fabric Encryption Capabilities |
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√ |
View the complete feature comparison chart of all Fabric OS-based products.
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Brocade 5100
3PAR
