Brocade

Enterprise Class Switches

Silkworm 48000
With state of the art performance and enhanced scaleability for open systems and IBM mainframe enterprise SAN environments, the brocade Silkworm 48000 Director provides unique capabilities to meet the full spectrum of mission-critical requirements. It scales non-disruptively from 32 to as many as 384 concurrently active 4Gbit/sec full duplex ports in a single domain.  In addition, it supports fibre channel routing, FCIP, and iSCSI and is designed for future applications and higher speed options. 

Silkworm 24000
The Brocade Silkworm 24000 is a highly reliable and intelligent solution for deploying enterprise-class SAN's in mission-critical environments.  It supports key applications such as data backup, remote mirroring, and high-availability clustering as well as high volume transaction processing applications such as ERP and data warehousing.

Silkworm 12000
The used SilkWorm 12000 is available in a 64-port configuration with the option to double the port count to 128. The 12000 enables a seamless upgrade path and optimal investment protection with the other SilkWorm family of switches.