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Brocade Communications Systems SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fabric Switch has been selected by Datamation Magazine as the leading new product of 2001 in the Networking Hardware category.
Datamation Product of the Year awards are selected by IT professionals from an elite group of products which are nominated by industry leaders. The awards recognize outstanding applications, development tools, servers, workstations, networking equipment, and other new technology solutions that are expected to have the biggest effect on businesses.
According to the company, the 2 Gigabit per second (Gbit/sec) 16-port SilkWorm 3800 increases storage area network (SAN) scalability and reliability, enhances the security of the SAN fabric, and simplifies storage network management.
