Highlights

Designed to interconnect distant SANs via secure Internet Protocol

IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router

Efficient package with two active Fibre Channel ports and two Ethernet Internet Protocol ports

■ Designed for high performance	■ Hardware-based compression,
with 4 Gigabit per second	large window sizes and selec-
(Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) ports	tive acknowledgement of IP
and hardware-assisted traffic	packets designed to optimize
processing for line-rate per-	performance of SAN extension
formance across Ethernet	over IP networks
Internet Protocol (IP) ports

A wide range of IBM System Storage mid-range and enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure simpliﬁca- tion and business continuity solutions can be created with the IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router. Infrastructure simpliﬁcation solu- tions for the IBM Power™ Systems and System x™ family include disaster tol- erance over metropolitan and global IP networks with IBM System Storage disk arrays, tape libraries and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager data protection software.

Local site infrastructure simpliﬁcation

■Utilizes existing Internet, IP- based Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures for metro and global SAN extension for business continuity solutions

■Integrated IBM System Storage™ SAN b-type (Brocade) switch management helps sim- plify installation and administra- tion and helps provide fabric investment protection

solutions may be extended to one or more remote sites for enhanced data protection and disaster tolerance. The IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multi- protocol router provides Fibre Channel over IP and FCIP Tunneling Service for distance extension which can enable cost effective and manageable metro