Brocade - FR4-18i - E2new.com IT equipment

Designed for use in the Brocade 48000 Director, the Brocade FR4-18i combines the industry's first 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel routing capability with powerful hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). The blade features 16 Fibre Channel ports and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports-delivering high performance to run storage applications at line-rate speed with either protocol.

By integrating these services in a single blade, the Brocade FR4-18i offers a wide range of benefits for inter-SAN connectivity, including long-distance SAN extension, greater resource sharing, and simplified management.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Combines 16 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel routing ports with two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Utilizes Brocade Extended Fabrics capabilities to reach up to 100 kilometers at 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel speeds, 250 kilometers at 2 Gbit/sec speeds, and more than 500 kilometers at 1 Gbit/sec speeds
Significantly reduces the cost and effort of SAN design, implementation, and management
Integrates advanced SAN connectivity services into existing environments to further increase ROI
Enables non-disruptive deployment and device sharing across disparate SANs at 4 Gbit/sec speeds with state-of-the-art reliability
Provides powerful hardware-assisted FCIP capabilities for line-rate performance across high-speed data networks
Enables reliable SAN extension across suboptimal WANs with Fast Write, hardware-based compression, and storage-optimized protocol enhancements
Provides a seamless and secure way to share resources across multiple SANs without the complexity of physically merging those SANs
Simplifies interconnection and support for multivendor SAN environments

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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation and a technology company specializing in data and storage networking products. The company's product portfolio spans across Enterprise Ethernet (LAN, WLAN) Switches, WAN (Internet) Routers, SAN Switches, Application Delivery Controllers, Network Security Appliances, Ethernet/Storage Network Adapters and PHY Transceivers. Founded in 1995, Brocade is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.