StorageTek offers industry-leading Brocade and McDATA fabric switches and directors to connect servers and storage devices in Open Systems and mainframe storage area networks (SANs). These high-speed, robust storage networks enable organizations to access and share data in a high-performance, manageable, and scalable manner.
| Brocade SilkWorm 3250 entry fabric switch | 8 universal ports
| 2.125 Gb/sec line speed, full-duplex
| <2.1 microsec with no contention, cut-through routing at 2 Gb/sec
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| Brocade SilkWorm 3850 enterprise fabric switch | 8 universal ports
| 2.125 Gb/sec line speed, full-duplex
| <2.1 microsec with no contention, cut-through routing at 2 Gb/sec
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| Brocade SilkWorm 3900 enterprise fabric switch | 32 universal ports (E,F and FL)
| Auto-sensing of 1 Gb/sec and 2 Gb/sec port speeds
| <2.1 msec with no contention, cut-through routing
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| Brocade SilkWorm 7420 multiprotocol router | 16 ports, universal Fibre Channel (E, F and EX) and Gigabit Ethernet
| Fibre Channel: 1.063 Gbit /sec line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbit /sec line speed full duplex; auto-sensing of 1 Gbit /sec and 2 Gbit /sec speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 1 Gbit /sec and 2 Gbit / sec ports. Ethernet: 1.25 Gbit /sec
| < 40 microsec per frame for routed and virtualized traffic
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| Brocade SilkWorm 24000 director | 128 ports, universal (E,F, and FL); up to eight 16-port Fibre Channel modules; up to 384 ports per 42u* rack
| 1.063 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec ports
| < 2.1 microsec any port to any port at 2 Gbit/sec, cut-through routing
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| Brocade SilkWorm 4100 Fibre Channel switch |
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| McDATA Sphereon 4500 fabric switch | 24 GL ports
| 1.0625 - 2.125 Gb/sec, full duplex
| <1 microseconds average
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| McDATA Sphereon 3232 fabric switch | 32 GL ports
| 1.0625 - 2.125 Gb/sec, full duplex
| <2 microsecond average
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| McDATA Intrepid 6064 director | 64 ports
| 2 Gb/sec, full duplex
| <2 microseconds average
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| McDATA Intrepid 6140 director | 140 ports
| 2 Gb/sec, full duplex
| <2 microseconds average
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