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McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual
Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
Product Overview
McDATA provides storage network solutions that are integrated
across a variety of platforms, original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs), and locations. Solutions are modular and support multiple
technologies (current and future), protocols, and data transmission
speeds. These solutions include:
• Multi-protocol hardware.
• SAN management applications.
Multi-Protocol
Hardware
McDATA provides three classes of multi-protocol hardware:
• Intrepid
®
-series directors - A director is a high port count,
high-bandwidth Fibre Channel switch designed with fully-
redundant, hot-swappable field replaceable units (FRUs).
Directors provide superior scalability, high data security, and an
availability of 99.999% (about five minutes of average down time
per year). Director-class products are typically deployed at the
core of large fabrics (greater than 500 ports) and are the optimum
choice to support mission-critical business requirements.
McDATA offers the:
— 64-port Intrepid 6064 Director.
— 140-port Intrepid 6140 Director.
— 256-port Intrepid 10000 Director.
Refer to Directors for detailed information about each product.
• Sphereon™-series fabric switches - A fabric switch is a low to
medium port count, high-bandwidth Fibre Channel switch
designed with redundant power supplies and cooling fans. Fabric
switches implement the same high-performance technology as
directors, but with less redundancy, availability, and expense.
Switches are cost-effective, support non-disruptive scalability and
connectivity on demand, and provide an availability of 99.9%
(about 8.8 hours of average down time per year). Switch-class
products are typically deployed at the edge of large fabrics or
provide the foundation for small (less than 200 ports) or medium
fabrics (between 200 and 500 ports). McDATA offers the: