| Industry-leading Brocade switches are the foundation for connecting servers and storage devices in SANs, enabling organizations to access and share data in a high-performance, manageable, and scalable manner. To help protect existing investments, Brocade switches are fully forward and backward compatible across the entire Brocade portfolio, including the Brocade DCX Backbone. This capability enables organizations to deploy 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec fabrics with highly scalable core-to-edge configurations. Brocade switch models offer flexible configurations ranging from 8 to 80 ports, and can function as standalone or edge switches, depending upon customer requirements. Brocade switch and director offerings help optimize storage networking environments to meet the most demanding SAN requirements. This approach helps ensure high resource utilization, simplified management, and unmatched fabric scalability |