Technical Details for Brocade Silkworm 24000 Director

Brocade Silkworm 24000 Director ... enterprise-class SANs 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.

With state-of-the-art performance and enhanced scalability for enterprise SAN environments, the SilkWorm 24000 provides unique capabilities to meet a variety of mission-critical requirements. By supporting 128 concurrently active 2 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain, the SilkWorm 24000 builds upon the field-proven SilkWorm 12000 while offering improved performance, reduced management costs through a higher port/domain ratio, lower total cost of ownership, and the ability to upgrade to higher-speed connectivity in the future.

Designed to integrate with both heterogeneous open system and mainframe FICON environments, the SilkWorm 24000 gives organizations the flexibility to build cost-effective SANs that support the introduction of utility computing and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).