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Brocade Converged Networks solution has the ability to show the industry's most extensive end-to-end Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). 

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Brocade offers the industry's most extensive end-to-end Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offering. With such a wide array of products, organizations can choose from top-of-rack and end-of-row solutions. Brocade also offers the highest-performance single-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Brocade CEE/FCoE products are unified under the Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application that also manages existing Brocade SANs.

Brocade NetIron MLX Series
The Brocade NetIron MLX Series of advanced routers provides industry-leading 10 GbE and 1 GbE port density, wire-speed performance, and a rich set of IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, VPLS, and Multi-VRF capabilities as well as advanced Layer 2 switching capabilities. These routers address the diverse needs of environments such as data centers, large enterprises, government networks, education networks, High-Performance Computing (HPC) networks, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Brocade DCX Backbones
Brocade DCX Backbone family includes highly robust 8 Gbps network switching platforms that combine breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. Supporting open systems and System z environments, Brocade DCX Backbones are designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs.

Brocade 8000 Switch
The Brocade 8000 Switch is a link layer (Layer 2) switch with a cut-through and non blocking architecture. This multiprotocol switch supports Ethernet, CEE, Fibre Channel, and FCoE protocols, providing industry-leading top-of-rack server I/O consolidation solutions in a compact 1U form factor. The Brocade 8000 features 24 10 Gbps CEE ports and eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports. Using its built-in FCoE hardware engine, the Brocade 8000 inspects incoming converged Ethernet and storage traffic, separates it into storage and networking streams, then directs each stream to its proper destination. Ethernet, or networking, traffic gets directed to LANs through the 24 CEE ports, while storage traffic gets switched to Fibre Channel SANs over the switch's Fibre Channel ports.

Brocade FCOE10-24 Blade
The Brocade FCOE10-24 is a CEE/FCoE blade for Brocade DCX and DCX-4S Backbone platforms. The blade is a link layer (Layer 2) switch with cut-through and non-blocking architecture that enables line-rate throughput on all of its 24 10 Gbps CEE ports. The Brocade FCOE10-24 features a hardware FCoE engine that provides full T11 FCoE support, utilizing external Fibre Channel ports available on other Brocade DCX blades.

Brocade 1010/1020 CNAs
The Brocade 1010 (single port) and Brocade 1020 (dual port) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) provide the industry's best-in-class server connectivity for networking and Fibre Channel storage I/O consolidation, leveraging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE). 

Brocade DCFM Application
Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) unifies the various resources available on Brocade SANs and CEE/FCoE technologies under one comprehensive management framework. With DCFM, organizations can continue to use familiar storage management tools and incorporate CEE/FCoE resources into existing environments seamlessly and without disruption to their IT practices.

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