Using the latest high-speed interfaces, the Brocade USD-X optimizes bandwidth by compressing data and supporting multiple applications simultaneously. It works at the core of your storage infrastructures to create a robust, scalable solution that integrates and exploits your existing storage resources.
Key Benefits
Consolidates to reduce costs
Combines and shares resources across disparate networks
The Brocade USD-X enables the consolidation of channel and network interfaces to fewer high-speed interfaces, reducing the complexity of your infrastructure and simplifying management.
Advanced networking capabilities
The Brocade USD-X's one-to-many networking capabilities allow a single high-speed interface, such as Gigabit Ethernet, to be spliced and routed to up to 32 destination IP addresses. What's more, each destination has a portion of the bandwidth allocated to meet its specific application needs.
Shared Resources
A wide range of device types
The Brocade USD-X connects and extends mainframe storage-related data-replication applications for both disk and tape, along with remote channel networking for a wide range of device types.
Connects distributed networks
Possessing true configuration flexibility, the Brocade USD-X provides any-to-any connectivity, supporting Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON, and Bus and Tag device interfaces. It also supports a variety of network interfaces, including OC-3 ATM, 10/100 Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, channel interfaces can share the same network connections to create efficient, flexible infrastructures.
Optimized Performance
Increased bandwidth
The Brocade USD-X supports multiple applications simultaneously, allowing bandwidth to be shared for improved utilization and reduced costs. In addition, you can achieve significant compression ratios depending on the compressibility of your data. This can more than double the capacity of your existing bandwidth and allow you to delay investments in additional infrastructure. Plus, Adaptive Rate Limiting optimizes WAN utilization by making use of all available bandwidth.
Anywhere in the world
The Brocade USD-X enables global business continuity and disaster recovery, providing you with buffered architecture that maximizes data management and extends FICON and ESCON data over any distance. Its industry-leading hardware compression reduces bandwidth costs by 50% to 90% with no impact on system performance. And its intelligent software incorporates new features that dramatically improve network throughput and maximize application execution across town or around the globe. These features include dynamic load leveling across all available bandwidth, automatic alternate path failover, network-based error detection and recovery, traffic prioritization, new and improved data compression, and pipelining.
In addition, the Brocade USD-X allows ESCON and Bus and Tag technologies to be supported over a variety of remote network infrastructures. Hosts and peripherals like printers, check sorters, and check imaging to be located wherever it makes the most business sense.
