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Brocade DCX Backbone

• A Platform for Evolving Data Center Fabrics

Brocade DCX Backbones are highly robust network switching platforms that combine breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.

Provides a highly robust 8Gb platform in two modular form factors for enterprise data centers supporting open system and System z environments

Delivers over four times the performance of competitive offerings to meet data growth and access demands, expand virtualization, and consolidate resources

Provides a future-built multiprotocol architecture for consolidating server connectivity as low-latency, lossless technology options such as FCoE and CEE emerge

Delivers ten times the energy efficiency of competitive offerings, enabling data centers to support more server and storage equipment

Offers fabric-based applications, including secure data encryption and Adaptive Networking that helps optimize fabric behavior and maximize service levels

Enables logical partitioning of platforms and fabrics into virtual data and management domains

Extends ROI by operating natively with Brocade B-Series and M-Series fabrics, and with common management tools



	Brocade DCX Backbones are designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs. Built for large enterprise networks, the 14U Brocade DCX has eight vertical blade slots to provide up to 384 Fibre Channel ports using Brocadebranded 4Gb or 8Gb SFPs. DCX model feature ultra-high-speed Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports to connect two DCX backbones, providing extensive scalability and flexibility at the network core. At the network edge, organizations can utilize Brocade 8Gb switches, Brocade 48000 Directors, or for complete backbone-class capabilities,the Brocade DCX-4S.
HIGHEST PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY
	Brocade DCX models provide 256 Gbit/sec of bandwidth per slot (512 Gbit/sec aggregate data rate). When combined with unique Brocade local switching capabilities data traffic within the same port group does not consume slot bandwidth the Brocade DCX family provides over four times the performance of competitive offerings.
FLEXIBLE, MULTIPROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE
	Brocade DCX Backbones include 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 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. The Brocade DCX family supports 1/2/4/8/10Gb Fibre Channel and FICON®, FCIP, and IPFC. To consolidate server connectivity using emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Converged Enhanced (CEE), organizations will simply be able to add a planned FCoE/CEE blade or connect to a planned FCoE/CEE top-of-rack switch.
TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT AND ADAPTIVE NETWORKING
	The Brocade DCX family offers Top Talkers (part of Advanced Performance Monitoring) and Adaptive Networking, a suite of tools including 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. And QoS expedites critical traffic in the event of congestion while keeping all traffic flowing.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY, RELIABLITY, AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION
	Brocade DCX Backbones are highly effective at reducing power consumption, cooling, and carbon footprint in data centers. While providing unmatched performance and scale, both models use less than one-half watt per Gbit/sec making them 10 times more efficient than competitive offerings. To help minimize downtime costs, the Brocade DCX family builds upon years of innovation and leverages the core technology of Brocade systems performing at greater than 99.999 percent uptime in the world’s most demanding data centers.