Brocade 48000 Fibre Channel Director

The Brocade 48000 Director features an industry leading director-class platform created for enterprise SANs. A modular design and high port density deliver a flexible, scalable solution specifically for large open systems and System z environments in round-the-clock data centers. 

Choose to utilize the Brocade 48000 Director either as a standalone director, at the core of a multi-switch SAN, or at the edge of a Brocade data center fabric architecture. 

Brocade 48000 Director Features: 

System Blades:

• Up to 384 4 or 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports; up to eight Fibre Channel blades (16, 32, or 48 ports per blade); up to 1152 ports per 42U rack
• Up to eight Brocade FC10-6 blades (six 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports per blade)
• Up to four Brocade FR4-18i SAN Extension blades (16 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports per blade)
• Up to four Brocade FC4-16IP iSCSI blades (eight 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports and eight Gigabit Ethernet ports per blade)
• Up to two Brocade FA4-18 Application Blades (16 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports per blade)

Control Processor:

• Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules

Scalability:

• Full fabric architecture of 239 switches maximum

Port Rates:

• 1.063 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed-matching between 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec ports and between 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec ports; 10.5 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex, fixed port speed

System Bandwidth:

• 1024 Gbit/sec backplane switching capacity
• 3.264 Tbit/sec (4 Gbit/sec blades, local switching)
• 6.528 Tbit/sec (8 Gbit/sec blades, local switching)

For pricing on new or used  Brocade 48000 directors, please contact Vibrant sales at sales@vibrant.com or call 888-443-8606 or 952-653-1700.