Brocade's New Core Fabric Switch for Storage Networks.Brocade brocade (brōkād`), fabric, originally silk, generally reputed to have been developed to a high state of perfection in the 16th and 17th cent. in France, Italy, and Spain. Communication Systems has introduced the first modular, multiprotocol core fabric switch designed to support next-generation storage applications and services. The new Brocade SilkWorm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. 12000 Core Fabric Switch, available in 64-port and 128-port configurations, expands the capabilities of existing Fibre Channel storage environments and is extensible to support both IP and emerging InfiniBand An input/output architecture used in high-end computer clusters and storage networks, introduced in 1999. Using switched, point-to-point channels similar to mainframes and also similar to PCI Express (switched version of PCI), InfiniBand is designed as a true fabric architecture that can networks. Building on Brocade's SAN infrastructure, the SilkWorm 12000 enables customers to scale storage more effectively, support continuous data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , and reduce the overall cost of storage management. It also offers extensible and multi-protocol to support 1Gbps, 2Gbps, and 10Gbps Fibre Channel, IP, and InfiniBand protocols and forward and backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. with the entire SilkWorm product family. The SilkWorm 12000 is expected to be generally available with 2Gbps Fibre Channel support in the fourth calendar quarter of 2001. Options for support of 10Gbps Fibre Channel, and support for IP and InfiniBand protocols will be |
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