The Brocade DCX Backbone introduces a new class of connectivity designed to provide the backbone foundation for the datacenter. It manages large server/storage environments, and with its 8 Gb/sec Fibre Channel (FC) ports, it delivers unmatched performance, energy efficiency and future-built extensibility.
Key Benefits
Consolidates datacenter connectivity for highly available, lossless networking
8 Gb/sec FC simplifies datacenter connectivity by reducing the number of FC links
Improves data access, protection, and migration of storage
Improves energy efficiency by combining higher bandwidth with lower power consumption
Enables interoperability with Brocade, Brocade M-Series, and other vendors' fabrics
Implementing large-scale server virtualization, adaptive networking, and multiple high-performance protocols ultimately requires a new class of network infrastructure: Brocade DCX Backbone.
Built on Brocade DCF, an application-driven architecture, DCX adapts and responds to changing needs for managing applications and data. Moreover, it provides a secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure that helps ensure that mission-critical applications such as data security, encryption, backup, and replication are automatically available based on business policies.
Simplifying datacenter connectivity
Brocade DCX Backbone provides a new kind of datacenter connectivity, serving as an interoperability platform for all datacenter SAN products. Designed to meet growing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency requirements, Brocade DCX simplifies any datacenter environment and provides improved data accessibility, protection, and migration, regardless of the physical or virtual state of applications, data and networks.
Its adaptive networking capabilities enable a unique relationship between applications and data that is not available with network-centric approaches, enabling improved quality of service with application-aware management of fabric resources.
Powering the next-generation datacenter
Brocade DCX builds on your existing infrastructure and technology, providing the datacenter backbone and network foundation. It delivers high bandwidth, application-aware, multiprotocol connectivity between servers and storage.
Future-built to power the next-generation datacenter, Brocade DCX delivers four times the bandwidth and compute power of more traditional systems, and features a next-generation 6 Tb/sec backplane and per-port routing that can eliminate over-subscription. Plus, it delivers 8 Gb/sec server/storage connectivity and 10 Gb/sec ISL connectivity.
With its high availability, highest density per port and footprint, multiprotocol connectivity, and lowest Gigabit per second bandwidth cost, Brocade DCX provides the foundation for your evolving datacenter.
Lower TCO
Sips energy
Energy costs are skyrocketing in today's datacenter. Brocade DCX helps lower those costs by providing a solution that's 25% more efficient than 4 Gb/sec devices and up to 900% more cost-effective than comparable products in the market today.
Consolidate and save
One Brocade DCX delivers the performance of four SAN directors, enabling you increase efficiency and utilization while reducing costs. In addition, Brocade DCX can also act as the management consolidation point for block and file storage access.
Easy to use
Brocade DCX offers familiar management tools and non-disruptive maintenance, and delivers high reliability, further lowering costs.
An expandable platform
Brocade DCX also protects your investment by providing an expandable platform for intelligent, policy-driven, fabric-based applications, including security, continuous data protection and replication, storage virtualization, and data migration across heterogeneous platforms.
Multiprotocol Connectivity and Native Interoperability
Maximum compatibility
Brocade DCX delivers a single platform for Fibre Channel and IP connectivity. It supports multiple existing and emerging high-performance networking protocols, including FICON, FCoE, Data Center Ethernet (DCE), 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and iSCSI, providing you with maximum flexibility and compatibility. Its architecture is interoperable with all types of SAN environments, protecting your investment and providing seamless connectivity.
Innovative Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) Architecture
An architectural transformation
When it comes to managing the unprecedented growth in digital data and application deployment, today's datacenters are pushed to the limit. As a result, enterprise datacenters are undergoing an architectural transformation.
Brocade DCF is an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for building next-generation datacenters. Leveraging a decade of experience in enterprise fabrics, Brocade DCF supports strategic functions of multiprotocol connectivity, policy-based automation, and uniform management across the datacenter.
Supports key initiatives
Utilizing this application-focused approach, Brocade DCF enables the deployment of intelligent, fabric-based services for key datacenter initiatives. These include continuous data protection and disaster recovery, file and block data migration across heterogeneous environments, server and storage virtualization, and encryption for data in-flight and at-rest.
Simplifies the datacenter
Brocade DCF simplifies and optimizes important new technologies, such as server virtualization. Since the vast majority of virtual servers connect to networked storage, Brocade DCF automates these connections, enabling customers to simplify their environments and operations.
