Quick tech specs
- Switch
- 96 x 16Gb Fibre Channel SFP+
- with 96x 16 Gbps SWL SFP+ transceiver
- managed
- rack-mountable
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The Brocade 6520 switch meets the demands of growing, dynamic workloads and private cloud storage environments by delivering excellent Gen 5 Fiber Channel technology and capabilities. The Brocade 6520 is a high-density, purpose-built, foundational building block for large and growing Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures. It provides outstanding scalability, reliability, and performance in a flexible, easy-to-deploy enterprise-class switch, enabling greater data center consolidation, operational efficiency, and business continuity. In addition to increased throughput, it helps improve bandwidth utilization, security, and network visibility and management through in-flight data compression and encryption and advanced diagnostics. It's an ideal switch for bandwidth-intensive workloads, evolving virtualized data centers, and private cloud architectures.