Brocade 10 GbE CNAs Available For Network Convergence

Brocade announced that its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been successfully qualified and are available from EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and NetApp.

Brocade single chip CNAs - available in two models: the Brocade 1010 single-port CNA and the Brocade 1020 dual-port CNA - deliver up to 1,000,000 IOPS on a dual port card, enabling improved performance to handle real-world applications including enterprise email and database applications. The Brocade 1010 and 1020 CNAs are also fully capable 10 GbE NICs supporting the new Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) or Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards for low-latency, lossless Ethernet, making them also an ideal platform for running high-performance, reliable iSCSI solutions.

“Dell’Oro Group believes the value proposition of a single converged fabric is extremely compelling,” said Seamus Crehan, Vice President, Dell’Oro Group. “We expect that FCoE adoption will first occur at the server access layer of the network with CNAs connecting mostly to blade and top-of-rack switches and we forecast that FCoE CNAs will grow from two thousand ports in 2008 to 2.7 million ports in 2014.”

The Brocade CNAs are available through EMC Select, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NetApp and Brocade certified channel partners. The Brocade 8000 Switch is also available today through Brocade OEM partners including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NetApp, HP and Dell, as well as through Brocade certified channel partners.