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Broadcom Unveils Industry's First Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel Switching Platforms Enabling an Autonomous SANSAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the availability of the industry’s first Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms— the Brocade X7 Directors and G720 Switch, that are foundational infrastructure for the on-demand data center. Additionally, the company today announced the industry’s first 64Gb/s Fibre Channel optical transceiver, that is being qualified for use in Brocade switches and Emulex adapters, for end-to-end Gen 7 performance. Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel combines unmatched performance, powerful analytics and advanced automation capabilities to enable an autonomous SAN. New 64Gb/s speed and 50 percent lower latency, powers the network for storage innovations like NVMe flash arrays. Gen 7 also adds new self-learning, self-optimizing and self-healing capabilities to automate SAN management. With the launch of Gen 7 Fibre Channel switching platforms, Broadcom is demonstrating its commitment to develop innovative Fibre Channel technology for the most trusted network for storage. “Broadcom continues to lead the market and drive innovation with the launch of the industry’s first end-to-end Gen 7 Fibre Channel portfolio,” said Jack Rondoni, senior vice president and general manager, Brocade Storage Networking division, Broadcom. “Brocade Gen 7 harnesses the power of 64Gb/s switching technology and transforms current storage networks with autonomous SAN capabilities, simplifying management, and significantly reducing operational costs.” Technology is evolving at an incredible pace and businesses are demanding more from their IT resources and infrastructure. With the rapid adoption of flash storage and the ramp up of NVMe-based storage, organizations will move more data through a SAN than ever before. This requires a network capable of unleashing performance and maximizing ROI for storage investments. Brocade Gen 7 performance is powered by 64Gb/s line-rate speed along with a 50 percent reduction in latency. This ensures that the network will never be the bottleneck for current and future storage technologies. Brocade Gen 7 today also introduces a range of autonomous technologies to simplify and automate management. A self-learning SAN leverages comprehensive data collection with powerful analytics to quickly understand the impact of current or trending problems. The self-optimizing capability utilizes actionable intelligence to automate network management and maximize performance. Learning traffic behavior enables the network to make smarter decisions on traffic prioritization, congestion management and notification to ensure optimal network performance for applications and storage. A self-healing SAN raises the bar for network availability through automatic avoidance and recovery features. When potential disruptions or outages are detected, the network will automatically mitigate or resolve issues without intervention. These new autonomous technologies will greatly simplify SAN management and enable unparalleled network performance and reliability. With almost three decades in the data center, Fibre Channel continues to be an essential piece of most enterprises’ critical storage infrastructure due to its industry-leading reliability and long-lasting investment protection. With a foundation of six-nines availability and multi-generational compatibility, Fibre Channel continues to add new capabilities and value to address the evolving needs of storage customers. “The enterprise storage industry is already well down the migration path to NVMe-based storage systems, and by 2021 over 50 percent of enterprise storage revenues driven by latency-sensitive primary workloads will come from the sale of these types of systems,” said Eric Burgener, research vice presidet, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. “To get the full performance benefits of NVMe in these systems requires NVMe over FC host connections, and more and more enterprises will be installing these types of extremely low latency networks as they deploy the next- generation applications needed in the digital era. NVMe over FC is the most efficient network transport protocol for these high performance networks, already broadly deployed in commercial environments today, and Gen 7 technology will enable the performance at scale these workloads demand.” “IT transformation starts with an intelligent core and enables businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences for the on-demand data center,” said Dan McConnell, SVP, product management, Digital Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara. “This cannot be accomplished without a modern and agile IT infrastructure that delivers information to customers faster with greater insights than ever before. The world’s highest performing storage solutions deserve the world’s highest performing network. As such, our Hitachi VSP 5000 Series coupled with the new Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel delivers leading performance to take maximum advantage of low latency, high performance fabrics.” Brocade X7 Directors: Build a Foundation for the Autonomous SAN This modern, highly-scalable Gen 7 director is a modular building block, purpose-built to power large-scale storage environments. With 64Gb/s speed and 50 percent lower latency compared to the previous generation, Brocade X7 directors maximizes the performance of NVMe storage and high-transaction workloads, eliminating IO bottlenecks and unleashing the full performance of next-generation storage. Brocade X7 Directors provide up to 384 64Gb/s line rate ports or up to 512 32Gb/s line rate ports, enabling organizations to scale more devices, applications and workloads. Brocade G720 Switch: Scale Out the Autonomous SAN This building-block switch maximizes performance and simplifies deployment, configuration and management of SAN resources. The Brocade G720 Switch provides 56 64Gb/s line rate ports in a 1RU design and 50 percent lower switching latency compared to previous generations to maximize performance of NVMe storage. Availability Brocade X7 Directors and Brocade G720 Switches are now available. Please contact your local Broadcom sales representative for more information. The products are available through Dell Technologies and Hitachi Vantara. Other OEM partners will begin shipping throughout the next several quarters. Visit www.broadcom.com/brocade to learn more about Brocade Fibre Channel networking solutions. About Broadcom Broadcom, the pulse logo, and Connecting everything are among the trademarks of Broadcom. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Press Contact: Quote Sheet: Jeff Hoogenboom, Vice President & General Manager, Emulex Connectivity Division, Broadcom Drew Schulke, VP of Networking, Dell Technologies Marcus Schneider, Head of Product Management Data Center Product Sales Europe, Fujitsu Chris Powers, VP, Collaborative Platform Development, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Eric Herzog, CMO, IBM Kamran Amini, Vice President & General Manager, Server, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure, Lenovo Data Center Group Kim Stevenson, SVP, Foundational Data Services Business Unit, NetApp Scott Baker, VP Flash Array Product Marketing, Pure Storage
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