With the industry’s largest Ethernet fabric installed base of more than 1,700 customers worldwide and more than 550,000 Brocade VDX switch ports shipped, Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD) continues to innovate and advance its leadership in Ethernet fabrics. As per the latest announcement made by Brocade, the Company has made multitenant solutions, including VCS Virtual Fabric, and new additions to the Brocade VDX switch portfolio, broadening its suite of cloud-optimized, fabric-enabled switches available.
An emerging requirement for both CSPs and enterprises that offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the ability to provide multitenancy support at scale to ensure each tenant’s traffic remains private while sharing a common infrastructure. To address this requirement, Brocade has developed two multitenant solutions - VCS Virtual Fabric and the VCS Fabric Gateway for VMware NSX.
Brocade also expanded its flagship VDX portfolio with new VCS Fabric-enabled switches based on Brocade’s next-generation ASIC. The new products include the industry’s first fabric-based 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack switch that can be upgraded to 10 GbE through a software licence, offering customers unmatched investment protection. In addition, Brocade announced a complete suite of next-generation line cards for the Brocade VDX 8770 chassis switch ranging from 10 GbEBase-T to 100 GbE.
The Brocade VDX 6740T-1 starts at $14,995. The Brocade VDX 8770 starts at $45,000 for the 48x10G-T, rising to $60,000 for the VDX 8770-27x40G and then $96,000 for the VDX8770-6x100G.
