The Enterprise Package includes: ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, Extended Fabrics and Data Center Fabric.
Brocade ISL Trunking is a software product available for all Brocade 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec Fiber Channel switches, Brocade Fabric OS - based directors, and the Brocade DCX Backbone. This technology is ideal for optimizing performance and simplifying the management of multi-switch SAN fabrics containing Brocade 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec switches and directors. When two or more adjacent ISLs in a port group are used to connect two switches with trunking enabled, the switches automatically group the ISLs into a single logical ISL, or "trunk". The throughput of the resulting trunk can be anywhere from 4 Gbit/sec to as much as 68 Gbit/sec.
Based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine, Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage resources. This tool helps reduce total cost of ownership and over-provisioning while enabling SAN performance tuning, reporting of service level agreements, and greater administrator productivity.
Brocade Extended Fabrics is a licensed feature for Brocade SAN switches and directors, enabling organizations to leverage the increased availability of DWDM equipment in major metropolitan areas. The most effective configuration for implementing extended-distance SAN fabrics is to deploy Fiber Channel switches at each location in the SAN. Each switch handles local interconnectivity and multiplexes traffic across long-distance DWDM links while the Extended Fabrics software enables SAN management over extended distances.
The Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) is a foundation and evolutionary strategy for designing, building, and managing enterprise data centers. A critical advanced technology integrated into the data center fabric is Brocade Adaptive Networking services. As application consolidation accelerates, service level management gains in importance, Adaptive Networking provides Quality of Service (QoS) to ensure fabric support for critical application service levels.
