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The Brocade SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fibre

Channel Fabric Switch provides both 1 and

2 Gbit/sec interfaces and includes a wide range of enhanced features to improve SAN security, availability, performance, and manageability.

SILKWORM 3800

S I L K W O R M S W I T C H FA M I L Y

Highlights

I m p r o v e d S e c u r i t y , A v a i l a b i l i t y , P e r f o r m a n c e , a n d M a n a g e a b i l i t y

•Provides 16 ports in a single

1U enclosure with auto-sensing

1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec interfaces for seamless integration with existing fabrics

•Includes Brocade Advanced Fabric Services that increase security through hardware-enforced WWN zoning

•Meets high-availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, automatic path rerouting, and extensive diagnostics

•Employs Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking to create an 8 Gbit/sec data path between switches for higher performance

•Protects investments through backward and forward compatibility with Brocade SilkWorm Fibre Channel switches

The Brocade® SilkWorm® 3800

16-port, auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch significantly increases performance and functionality for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Based on third-generation Brocade ASIC technology, the SilkWorm 3800 combines 1 Gbit/sec and

2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel through- put with new features that greatly enhance switch operation. As a result, organizations can enjoy the advantages of higher security, availability, and performance, as well as centralized data management.

Designed for enterprise environments, the SilkWorm 3800 integrates a variety of high-availability hardware and software features.The SilkWorm 3800 is especially useful for organi- zations that want to upgrade their existing environment with minimal disruption.The switch is fully inter- operable with existing SilkWorm 1000 and 2000 series switches— enabling a core-to-edge architecture that facilitates expansion, higher performance, and higher availability.

When added to existing fabrics, the SilkWorm 3800 automatically assigns individual switch addresses, establishes frame routes, and configures the internal name server.

HIGH AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT THE FABRIC

The SilkWorm 3800 is designed to provide high-availability switching at the core of small-to-medium-sized storage networks.The core-to-edge SAN model features high availability for the entire fabric through redundant network paths. Combining the proven reliability of the SilkWorm family with a wide range of Advanced Fabric Services, the SilkWorm 3800 provides a SAN fabric capable of delivering overall system availability greater than 99.999 percent—the “five nines” of availability.

In addition, Brocade Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) enables the fabric to automatically isolate problems and reroute traffic around failed links onto alternate paths—ensuring availability for mission-critical enterprise applications.