Brocade has upgraded its data center arsenal for the intensifying battle with Cisco and others for the converged fabric. The company this week unveiled a switch and adapters designed to couple two emerging standards — FibreChannel over Ethernet and Converged Enhanced Ethernet, according to a story by colleague Jon Brodkin.
Brocade on Tuesday announced the 8000 Switch, a top-of-rack FCoE device with 24 ports for 10GbE CEE and eight ports for Fibre Channel at 8Gbps. Brocade also unveiled single and dual-port Converged Network Adapters that are intended to provide 10Gbps Ethernet and storage transport over a single link from servers to SAN fabrics and to LANs.
Enterprises will probably start testing FCoE products this year, followed by limited deployment in 2010 and mass adoption in 2011 or later, Brodkin explains in his report.
Cisco’s Nexus 7000 and 5000 switches are also designed to support FCoE as well as Cisco’s flavor of CEE, which it calls Data Center Ethernet. CEE is supported by IBM, Juniper and Force10 as well.
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