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Fiber Channel SAN Switch and Director Vendors

Vendor
Director
(4 Gb)
Director
(2 Gb)
Director
(1 Gb)
Switch (4Gb)
Switch
(2Gb)
Switch
(1Gb)
Brocade
SW 48000
 
SW 24000, 12000
-
SW 4900, 4100, 200E
SW 3900, 3850, 3800, 3250, 3200
SW 6400, 2800, 2400
Cisco
MDS 9500
MDS 9500
-
MDS 9020
MDS 9216, 9140, 9120
-
McDATA
Intrepid i10K, 6140
Intrepid i10K, 6140, 6064
ED 6064, 5000
Sphereon 4400, 4700
Sphereon 4500, 4300, 3232, 3216
ES 3032, 3016, 1000
qLogic
-
-
-
SANbox 5600, 1400
SANbox 5200, SANbox2-64,16, 8
SANbox-64/128, 16, 8

Fiber Channel Director Announcements

 Company
 Product
Date
Announcement Summary
Brocade SW 24000
26 Apr 2004
16-128 port 2 Gb Announcement
SW 48000
31 May 2005
32-256 port 4 Gb Announcement
Cisco MDS 9500
20 Aug 2002
16-224 port 2 Gb Announcement
MDS 9500
27 Apr 2004
Ficon support available
MDS 9500
3 Apr 2006
Up to 528 ports 4 Gb Announcement
McDATA ED 6064
9 Apr 2001
64 port 1 Gb Announcement
ED 6064
15 Aug 2001
FICON Support
Intrepid 6064
4 Apr 2002
64 port 2 Gb Announcement
Intrepid 6140
1 Oct 2002
140 port 2 Gb Announcement
Intrepid i10K
18 Jan 2005
256 port 2 & 10 Gb Announcement
Intrepid i10K
24 Jan 2006
10 Gb Blade Announcement
Intrepid 6140
12 Jun 2006
4 Gb Available

Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Vendors

 Vendor
PCI Express (4Gb)
PCI-X 2.0 (4Gb)
 PCI-X (2Gb)
 PCI (2Gb)
PCI (1Gb)
S-bus (2Gb)
S-bus (1Gb)
Emulex
LPe1100x
LP1100x
LP9802
LP9002
LP8000
LP9002S
LP8000S
LSI Logic
-
LSI7x04
LSI7x02
LSI40919
LSI40909
-
-
qLogic
QLE246x
QLA246x
QLA234x
QLA2300
QLA2200
QSB2340
QLA2202FS


DWDM and Channel Extender Vendors

Vendor
Channel Extender
DWDM / CWDM
Cisco  
ONS 15000

McDATA

UltraNet
Spectrum

Finisar

 
OptiLinx

Nortel Networks

 
OPTera Metro 5200, 5100

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