Brocade raises bar to reduce bottlenecks
Brocade raises bar to reduce bottlenecks
Brocade has released the world's first 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel switch to allow companies with growing storage issues to free up bottlenecks so that data can travel more quickly over long distances.
The SilkWorm 4100, provides double the transfer speed rate of modern day switches is aimed at mid-size organisations or enterprises who are facing expanding departments and need to ensure that flow of information does not get clogged up.
Graham Schultz, the partner manager for Australia and New Zealand, explained why the release of this switch is very timely.
"We are releasing this switch at a time when organisations need to thing about the future. It is very useful for companies that wish to use SANs over long distances. For instance, it can transfer data at 4 Gigabits per second over 100km, or 1 Gigabit per second over 500km. An organisations needs to ensure that they have the infrastructure to support this technology though.
" As organisations gets bigger and bigger, they demand for information is pushed higher, meaning that the infrastructure becomes more complex, more components are used, more arrays are attached and data needs to travel faster.
"This new release breaks down these barriers early on, taking stress off the overall architecture."
He believes that the OEMs will be very happy with this switch because it helps organisations deal with future problems.
Schultz added that ports on demand scalability and advanced performance features make the SilkWorm 4100 switch ideal for mid-sized organisations, and in branch offices and departments of enterprises implementing a local or core-to-edge SAN architecture.
Each member of the product family - 16, 24 and 32-port configurations have auto-sensing for data link speeds of 1,2, or 4 Gbit/sec.
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