CISCO & BROCADE ENTER JOINT TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENTTO INTERCONNECT SANs.Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), a leader in networking for the Internet, and 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. (BROCADE) (Nasdaq: BRCD), a leading supplier of Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. solutions for Storage Area Networking, announced a multi-phased technology development agreement that will enable customers to seamlessly interconnect SANs (storage area networks) over Internet protocol (IP)-based metropolitan and wide area network infrastructures. The Cisco/BROCADE agreement will facilitate the interconnection of islands of SANs over IP-based metropolitan area network (MAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructures. It will enable the deployment of high-performance SANs spanning multiple remote physical locations and make possible new types of SAN applications that previously could not be implemented over long distances, including disaster recovery, remote data replication, remote data backup, and digital content distribution. Cisco and BROCADE have also agreed to develop additional switch-to-switch connection products in the future to further expand customers' options for connecting BROCADE Fibre Channel-based SANs across Cisco networking infrastructures, supporting a variety of high-speed network interfaces. All products resulting from this agreement will be compliant with ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. T11 standards. |
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