The Brocade Edge M3000 enables the extension of mission-critical storage networking applications to protect your data or push data access out to the far corners of your enterprise, driving new business opportunities. Its any-to-any connectivity and multipoint SAN routing capability provide a flexible infrastructure for remote storage applications.
Key Benefits
Interconnects the enterprise for improved availability
Reduces costs through more efficient use of bandwidth capacity
Saves time by leveraging existing FC and IP resources
The Brocade Edge M3000's unique buffered architecture and flow control capabilities provide the ability to interconnect remote facilities, regardless of location, creating a unified, global storage network for mid-tier business. Whether for data sharing, content distribution or disaster recovery, the Brocade Edge M3000 ensures data access, when and where you need it.
The Brocade Edge M3000 enables many of the most cost-effective data-replication solutions available, including both disk mirroring and remote tape backup/restore, to maximize data availability and business continuity.
Reduces Costs
More efficient bandwidth capacity
The unique compression capabilities of the Brocade Edge M3000 can significantly reduce the cost of telecom lines. Depending upon the compressibility of the data, UltraNet technology can compress your data anywhere from 2:1 to 20:1, dramatically reducing bandwidth costs. For example, with compression, you can achieve gigabit per second performance using your existing 100 Mb Ethernet infrastructure – at a fraction of the cost.
Combine disk and tape and save
In addition, you can use the same infrastructure for synchronous disk mirroring by day and asynchronous tape backup by night, making more efficient use of underutilized bandwidth. Using the Brocade Edge M3000's WAN segmentation capabilities ensures quality of service even in a shared network environment.
Leverage FC and IP resources
By leveraging the Fibre Channel and IP infrastructure and skill sets you already have in place, you can avoid the costly and time-consuming task of adding dedicated infrastructure. You'll take advantage of lower-cost IP bandwidth, an easier-to-manage storage environment, and quicker deployment of new storage applications.
Delivers Dependable Performance
Data delivery you can count on
Whether you're moving, storing, accessing, or backing-up critical business-information, you need to know that your information reaches its destination and that the correct data was received. The Brocade Edge M3000 acts like an extra insurance policy against corrupted data, performing cyclical redundancy checks at the network level to ensure a constant mirror with no interruptions.
Over any distance
No matter were you're located, the Brocade Edge M3000 delivers dependable, distance-independent application performance. It combines Fibre Channel switch buffer credit negotiation with its unique flow control and pipelining techniques across the network to optimize application performance from 10 miles to 10,000 miles.
Without latency
Brocade's unique tape pipelining capability virtually eliminates the impact of latency on the sustainable throughput of tape backup over distance. The Brocade Edge M3000 emulates a buffered device controller and queues up operations remotely to ensure that the next operation is available to send to the device controller as soon as the previous operation is completed.
Operations and data in the pipeline are retained in the buffer until successful completion. Thus the remote tape backup system appears local to the server and is able to sustain performance over thousands of miles.
