Enterprises around the world have discovered the unparalleled scalability and performance of the 256 port Mi10K Director. Now, the Brocade Mi10K Director is raising the bar for enterprise storage area networking. It's the most robust enterprise director on the market today.

Winner of numerous awards, including the 2006 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award, the Mi10K Director securely consolidates large, diverse and distributed infrastructures and delivers unparalleled availability, scalability and performance.

• SAN LPAR and Open VSAN technology
• New, advanced security features
• Non-disruptively inserts into networks
• Heterogeneous management with EFCM 9.0
• Meets fluctuating bandwidth needs with dynamic port allocation
• Supports link distances greater than 190km at 10 Gbit/sec

FICON Support for SAN LPARs

Industry leading SAN LPARs now support a FICON partition to enable greater cost cutting consolidation. Only SAN LPARs provide the complete isolation and security required by mainframe FICON deployments.

4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Director for Large-Scale Enterprise

• Ultra-High Availability 99.999%
• Hot-plug, redundant power supplies, fans, processors, switch cards
• Hot-plug optics, port modules
• Online diagnostics
• HotCAT technology for online, non-disruptive firmware load and activation
• Performance Port Speed: 2 Gbit/sec, 4 Gbit/sec and 10 Gbit/sec at full duplex
• Buffer Credits: Up to 1373 per 16 ports, user configurable
• Intelligent SAN Management EFCM Management Software
• SMI-S Interface
• SNMP
• Command Line Interface
• FICON Support FICON Management Server
• Investment Protection and Interoperability Fibre Channel Protocols: FC-PH, FC-PH-2, FC-PH-3, FC-GS-2, FC-GS-3, FC-FG, FC-MI, FC-SW, FC-SW-2, 10GFC, FC-FS, FC-PI, FC-SB-2, FC-SB-3
• Fibre Channel Element MIB: FE-MIB
• TCP/IP MIB-II Groups: System, Interface, Address Translation, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP
• Classes of Service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F

Brocade Mi10K 4 Gbit/sec Blade

Get 4 Gbit/sec performance without replacing existing Mi10K Directors. The i10K Director 4 Gbit/sec blade is a cost-effective and non-disruptive way to increase link speeds between select Brocade directors.

• Shortens backup times, meets bandwidth needs of data-intensive applications
• Simplifies your network by reducing the number of ISLs
• Intermixes with 2 Gbit/sec and 10 Gbit/sec blades
• Protects investments, with support for all i10K releases