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Brocade Launches 16-Gps Fibre Channel Switches

Its first 16-Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) switches was announced by Brocade, reports Information Week, and they have been placed in the newly announced CloudPlex fabric. The fabric is Brocade’s architecture for uniting servers, storage devices, and other components into a heterogeneous cloud, which features 10-Gbps Ethernet switches, new multiprotocol (FC and Ethernet) adapter cards, and a roadmap of partnerships and planned standards support.

"Other Brocade partners are licensing the 16-Gbps FC technology, with EMC announcing Connectrix hardware based on it at the same time as Brocade. ‘Fabric-based networks are a fundamental requirement to support highly virtualized data centers,’ said Josh Kahn, VP of cloud marketing at EMC, in a video statement. EMC says that 16-Gbps Connectrix gear will be available within 90 days.”