Brocade Interweaves NEC.Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). , Inc. announced a worldwide OEM partnership agreement with the NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Workstations and Servers Division. NEC Workstations will use Brocade Communications' new class of Fibre Channel switches Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
The switches and software connect servers with storage devices through a Fibre Channel solution and allows companies to access and share storage in an environment. Combined with a Fabric Operating System, named Fabric OS, Brocade switches deliver the robustness and manageability required by today's data center applications. The software model that will be incorporated into NEC Express Server systems is a sixteen-port, Fibre Channel Fabric switch that provides universal ports for simplified installation and hardware port zoning for optimal security. |
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