Introduction advantages of fiber channel switches

Fiber Channel switches and all ports will use the same shared bandwidth, resulting in a significant reduction in the bandwidth of all ports when the data volume is large, and there is a high cost effectiveness, more suitable for today's network needs.

Mr. Chen Zhihong, channel manager of Brocade Communications Greater China, introduced the SilkWorm205E product and technology to the participants and explained the SAN system applicable to small and medium enterprises. According to manager Chen, the SilkWorm205E Fiber Channel switch allows small and medium-sized enterprise users to deploy and configure cost-effective SAN systems, helping to build high-speed storage networks, this allows servers to access and share data in a high-performance, manageable, and scalable manner.

According to manager Chen, the current SilkWorm205E Fiber Channel switch has the following four advantages:

1. Provide 2 Gbit/sec performance and availability levels. Because of the fifth generation of brocade communication technology, SilkWorm205E can automatically sense the data throughput of 1 Gbit/sec, 2 Gbit/sec, it also includes a number of new features that can enhance the operation performance of the switch.

2. It has forward or backward compatibility and can be upgraded seamlessly. To protect users' investment, SilkWorm205E provides a seamless upgrade route from entry-level to large SAN products and is compatible with OS environments such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris, And AIX. At the same time, SilkWorm205E can fully interoperate with all current models of the SilkWorm series switch, so that the entry-level and small-sized SAN can meet different requirements.

3. The configuration is simple. You only need to click the three steps to complete the configuration.

4. Improve Operation Management in a better way. Using the SilkWorm205E Fiber Channel Switch not only enables SMEs to centrally manage hardware resources, saving manpower, but also accelerates data transmission thanks to the high-performance 2 Gbit/sec Fiber Channel capabilities, improves the overall performance and productivity of the system.

Manager Shuai Jun, responsible for storage channels of lianqiang International, said that the price of SilkWorm205E was set to about 20 thousand yuan. The market's acceptance of a new technology stems from the promotion of the manufacturer, which may result in sales. When this site reporter asked: What is the annual growth rate of SAN-based product sales?

Lu Shaowen, general manager of Brocade Communications Greater China, replied that according to IDC statistics, the annual growth rate of fiber channel switches with less than 16 ports is between 5% and 7%. Due to the downward trend of IT product prices, the product sales growth rate is actually greater than this number.

Brocade Communication System Co., Ltd. Nasdaq stock code: BRCD) provides an industry-leading smart SAN platform for network storage. The world's top vendors of Systems, Applications, and storage devices all choose Brocade to provide the networking Foundation for their SAN solutions.

BrocadeSilkWorm®The series of optical fiber switch products and software are designed to optimize the data usage efficiency and internal storage and server resources of the enterprise. With the Brocade solution, enterprises can simplify the implementation of the storage Region network, reduce the total cost of ownership of the data storage environment, and improve network performance and application efficiency. At present, brocade's global fiber channel network switches and directors share 60% of the market.

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