Brocade DCX-4S Backbone provides midsize enterprise networks with greater choice at the core and at the edge, and provides maximum performance and functionality in the core of a Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture.
Key Benefits
Consolidates server connectivity for highly available networking
8 Gb/sec FC simplifies datacenter connectivity
Improves data access, protection, and storage migration
Reduced power consumption improves energy efficiency
Over four times the performance of competitive offerings
With 256 Gb/sec of bandwidth per slot, Brocade DCX-4S Backbone provides over four times the performance of competitive offerings, enabling you to meet data growth and access demands, expand virtualization, and consolidate resources.
Uncongested 8 Gb/sec throughput
All 192 ports can operate simultaneously at a full 8 Gb/sec, enabling you to achieve greater server, storage, network, and datacenter consolidation.
Brocade DCX-4S Backbone delivers the performance you need to broaden server virtualization, with more virtual machines on fewer physical servers.
Plus you can reduce equipment, facility, and overhead costs, and scale to meet storage growth and application demands.
Extreme scalability
Brocade DCX-4S Backbone features Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) that deliver up to 256 Gb/sec between two Backbone chassis, enabling you to scale up to 768 Gb/sec Fibre Channel ports at the network core.
Built on Brocade DCF
Built on Brocade DCF, an application-driven architecture, DCX -4S Backbone 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.
Flexible, Multiprotocol Architecture
Virtual Fabrics
Brocade DCX-4S Backbone comes with a Virtual Fabrics feature that enables partitioning of a physical SAN into logical fabrics and isolation by application, business group, customer, or traffic type.
Optional Fibre Channel Integrated Routing
This optional feature alleviates the need for special-purpose blades or routers to connect servers and storage in separate fabrics. And optional SAN extension over long-distance IP connections accelerates offsite replication, backup, and restore.
Intelligent Management and Monitoring
Maximizes network performance
Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) provides intuitive system configuration, comprehensive management, and a topology-centric view across Brocade datacenter solutions.
Traffic measurement and Adaptive Networking
Brocade DCX-4S Backbone offers Top Talkers and Adaptive Networking, a suite of tools that includes Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, and QoS. Managed through DCFM or a command line interface, these advanced capabilities help optimize fabric behavior and ensure ample bandwidth for critical applications.
Top Talkers: Measures the top bandwidth-consuming traffic in real time over a physical device connection or throughout a network switch
Ingress Rate Limiting: Restricts data flow from less-critical hosts at preset bandwidths
Traffic Isolation: Dedicates paths in the fabric to high-bandwidth data flows
QoS: Expedites critical traffic in the event of congestion while keeping all traffic flowing
Energy Efficient
Sips energy, lowering TCO
Energy costs are skyrocketing in today's datacenter. Brocade DCX-4S Backbone helps lower those costs by reducing power consumption, cooling, and carbon footprint while providing unmatched performance and scale, Brocade DCX-4S Backbone uses less than one-half watt per Gb/sec, making it 10 times more efficient than competitive offerings.
Protects Your Investment
Maximizes ROI
Brocade DCS-4S Backbone connects natively to Brocade B- and M-Series fabrics without disruption. Unlike competitive offerings that claim interoperability through reverse engineering, Brocade enables expansion and consolidation of existing fabrics with minimum risk or training.
Complete compatibility, today and tomorrow
Brocade DCX-4S Backbone supports 1, 2, 4, 8, and 10 Gb/sec Fibre Channel and FICON, FCIP, and IPFC. It is also forward-compatible with the Brocade "Top of Rack" Switch for consolidating server connectivity using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FcoE) and Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE).
As the Brocade Top of the Rack Switch and FcoE become available, you can enable direct FcoE/CEE server connections to Brocade DCX-4S Backbone by simply adding a blade. This future-built compatibility protects your investment and enables maximum utilization and functionality, today and tomorrow.
