Network Communications News (NCN) April 2016 | Page 34

ESSENTIAL SELECTION

Hit for six
Brocade has introduced the Brocade G620,
the industry’s first Gen 6 Fibre Channel
switch for storage networking. The new
purpose-built and high density SAN switch
delivers breakthrough performance and
scalability designed to support data growth
and demanding workloads from missioncritical applications.
Fibre Channel fabrics are the common
threads that connect organisations to
their most critical applications and data.
Today, Fibre Channel drives the world’s
economies with the most trusted and
widely deployed network infrastructure
for storage. Thirty billion transactions go
through Fibre Channel each day and 96
per cent of the world’s banks, airlines and
retailers rely on Fibre Channel. Gen 6 is the
next generation Fibre Channel technology
that will enable organisations to address
performance, reliability and scalability
requirements for hyper scale virtualisation,
new data centre architectures and nextgeneration storage technologies.
The Brocade G620 switch delivers
increased performance across 32 and
128Gb/s links and shatters application
performance barriers with up to 100 million
IOPS. The Brocade G620 includes four
Q-Flex ports the can support 128Gb/s or be
split out into four 32Gb/s links. Delivering
the industry’s highest port density in a one
rack unit (1RU) chassis, the switch offers 24
to 64 ports for pay-as-you-grow flexibility
and scalability.
For further information visit:
www.brocade.com

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Lock stars
Excel Networking Solutions has
launched a new range of Environ
Lock Solutions in conjunction with
Southco and Entertech.
The Environ Lock Solutions
provide a choice of stand-alone
and networkable solutions that
can be integrated with access
control systems, BMS and
biometrics and all work on the
range of Environ Racks.
The solutions bring intelligence
and monitoring right down to the
lock level of a data rack, giving
you ultimate control of access to
the services and equipment within
a comms room or data centre,
making it perfect for colocation
deployments and remote
locations where only authorised
access is permissible.
The new Environ Lock
Solutions add the next level
of security to any Environ
rack installation. The range
covers RFID intelligent,
biometric intelligent, standalone
combination lock and standalone
RFiD lock. The solution also integrates
with the ISONAS access control system, Bio Connect and
the Excel intelligent PDUs as well as other third party systems through an
integration kit.
The Environ Lock Solutions will be specifically relevant for the data centre market, particularly
where colocation deployments are required; however, wherever extra security is required for any
Environ Rack installation there is a lock solution to meet every requirement..
For further information visit: www.excel-networking.com

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