Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/storage/storage_networking/routers/brocade_7500/index.xml

Brocade 7500 SAN Extension Switch

No Longer Orderable

This product has reached end-of-life and is no longer orderable. It is superceded by the next generation Brocade 7800 Extension Switch.

If you move a lot of data, the Brocade 7500 SAN extension switch can save you time and money. It's a faster (4 Gb/sec) routing switch that gives you scalable Fibre Channel routing services, combined with performance-optimized SAN extension, all managed by familiar Brocade administrative tools, under a unified management platform. It's a remarkable industry first in customer benefit.

At a Glance

Ultra-fast 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) routing
Supports FICON XRC emulation and FICON tape-pipelining over FCIP
Connects remote SANs over FCIP
16 Fibre Channel ports, 2 Gigabit Ethernet (FCIP) ports
128 Gb/sec aggregate bandwidth
Backward-compatible with other Brocade switches

Key Applications

Old-to-new SAN migration
Datacenter consolidation
Business continuance
Consolidated backup
Disaster recovery
Storage rebalancing
Migration from test to production networks
Moving equipment on and off lease

Uniquely Capable SAN Extension

The Brocade 7500 SAN extension switch combines the industry's first 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel routing capability with powerful hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). It gives you 16 FC ports for routing or switching and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports for SAN extension over IP. There's nothing else like it.

Brocade: the world's leading storage networking provider.