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Brocade punts new SAN router for kid enterprises

Anonymous Coward

Seems nearly useless in its base form... 

Posted Saturday 1st March 2008 05:05 GMT

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You'd be almost as well off buying a used Linksys off of ebay for $50.

Seán

Seems slow 

Posted Saturday 1st March 2008 05:05 GMT

50mb/sec or 500mb/sec

Matt

@Anonymous Coward 

Posted Saturday 1st March 2008 17:32 GMT

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I would love to know where you found a Linksys box with 4Gb/s FC-Fabric ports :P

But anyway, the default setup sounds crap (Even if it was 100Mb/s and the 50 was a typo)

It's not gonna be THAT cheap.

Simon Day

Its not as bad as you think 

Posted Saturday 1st March 2008 22:49 GMT

Anyone posting that this is crap is obviously not thinking about what it will be used for.

Its a FC to Ethernet router for your SAN - so you will stick it in one of your smaller offices, that connects over WAN (possibly even internet) to the rest of your SAN.

You probably only have 1 server connecting in your remote office so 2 ports is plenty - and over WAN 50Mb is probably going to be enough.

If this is substantially cheaper than the full version I'd say it has deffinite appeal - especially since you can just use the pair of FC ports to connect to your existing FC switches if you have more than the 1 server in your small offices.

SAN kit aint cheap and most of it is focussed on the higher end - anything that can bring the costs down is going to be welcome to businesses that use SAN.

Joe Hoey

correction 

Posted Sunday 2nd March 2008 09:10 GMT

be default: 4 ports: 2 Fibre Channel (E, F, FL, EX) ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet (VE, VEx) ports;

software license upgrade available to activate 14 additional Fibre Channel ports for a total of 16 (4Gb/s) FC ports