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Brocade 300 Introduction
Brocade 300 features
The Brocade 300 is a cost-effective and highly-scalable 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps switch, designed for small to
mid-sized businesses. Like all Brocade switches, the Brocade 300 runs on the Brocade Fabric
Operating System (Fabric OS) and is compatible with other Brocade switches, which enables seamless
connectivity into heterogeneous SAN environments.
The Brocade 300 is a dual purpose device that you can use either as a full-functioned switch or as an
N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) access gateway. When functioning as an access gateway, the Brocade
300 provides a single platform for all SAN connectivity.
Because the Brocade 300 is scalable, you can use it as a foundation switch for a small SAN and
continue to use it as a building block as the SAN grows.
The Brocade 300 provides the following features:
• 1U chassis that can be installed as a standalone unit or mounted in a standard Electronic Industries
Association (EIA) 48.26 cm (19 inches) rack.
• One built-in fixed power unit (not a FRU).
• Three built-in fans (there are no fan FRUs) that allows the a single fan failure and permits the switch
to continue to function properly.
• On-demand scaling of 8 to 24 8 Gbps ports.
• ASIC technology supporting 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel ports.
• A flexible design that enables the Brocade 300 to function as either a full-functioned switch or an
NPIV access gateway.
• Support of the EZSwitchSetup wizard for setup and basic configuration.
• RJ45 Ethernet management port that in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, supports switch IP address
discovery and configuration.
• USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and
storage for configuration uploads and downloads.
• A single motherboard design with a 667 MHz PowerPC 440EPx Reduced Instruction Set Computer
(RISC) CPU with integrated peripherals.
• Inter-Switch-Link Trunking (licensable) which enables up to eight ports (at 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps speeds)
between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single, logical ISL switch with a speed of up to
64 Gbps (128 Gbps full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.
• Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by
automatically routing data to the most efficient available path in the fabric.
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