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The 2 Gbit/sec Brocade SilkWorm 3900 Enterprise Fabric Switch provides an entry point to enterprise SANs, improving availability, performance, and manageability at an attractive price.

SILKWORM 3900

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

Highlights

I n c r e a s e d F l e x i b i l i t y f o r E v o l v i n g S A N R e q u i r e m e n t s

•Provides 32 ports in a 1.5U enclosure along with auto-sensing 1 and

2 Gbit/sec interfaces for seamless integration with existing fabrics

•Leverages Brocade Advanced Fabric Services to provide the highest levels of SAN performance, security, and manageability

•Meets mission-critical availability requirements with network resiliency, automatic data path rerouting, hot code activation, and redundant, hot-pluggable components

•Increases performance by employing Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking to create a data path with up to

8 Gbit/sec throughput per trunk

•Provides substantial cost savings by supporting a SAN infrastructure that increases productivity, maximizes IT resource utilization, and reduces capital expenditures

•Supports FICON® and FICON in-band management (CUP)

The Brocade® SilkWorm® 3900

32-port, auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch provides an intelligent and cost-effective solution to meet a wide range of Storage Area Network (SAN) requirements.

As the latest addition to the Brocade 2 Gbit/sec fabric switch family, the SilkWorm 3900 is ideal for organizations that face rapidly changing storage requirements.

With the performance capabilities of an enterprise switch and the cost-effectiveness of a modular switch solution, the SilkWorm 3900 enables a flexible SAN infrastructure. Designed for midsize to large storage networks, the SilkWorm 3900 enables organizations to implement a

SAN infrastructure that best meets their current needs and expands seamlessly as their storage requirements evolve.The SilkWorm 3900 provides a complete solution for a departmental SAN fabric, as a small core, or an edge switch extending the reach of an enterprise core-to-edge SAN built around Brocade SilkWorm Directors (see Figure 1).

Based on a third-generation Brocade intelligent architecture, the SilkWorm 3900 provides a highly available, scalable, and secure foundation for SAN applications such as high-speed data backup, server and storage consolidation, remote mirroring, and long-distance data replication.