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McDATA IT consolidation and business protection strategies enable you to get the most out of your SAN investment.

Intrepid Directors are the platform for building powerful, reliable and flexible storage networks. Designed for organizations with extremely large data needs, Directors extend uncompromised connectivity within SANs, 2Gb/sec. protocol speeds and ultra-high availability to larger storage networks and mainframe FICON environments.
Sphereon Fabric Switches provide unprecedented connectivity on demand. These cost-effective swithes give customers the fabric-level features of a large enterprise SAN in a small package. All McDATA swithces let customers pay for only the ports they use, making it a perfect solution for small and mid-sized enterprise applications.
Eclipse SAN Routers unify storage and IP networking architectures to deliver unprecedented scalability, distance-independence and multi-protocol access to traditional SANs. They provide the performance and scalability required for large enterprise applications, while also being cost-effective for small and mid-sized enterprise applications.


SANavigator® lets you make the most efficient use of hardware, software, and personnel resources. The platform provides improved storage network visibility, sophisticated performance monitoring and capacity planning, and multi-vendor environment support.
McDATA STORAGE NETWORK SOLUTIONS

McData EquipmentActive PortsSpeedSwitch LatencyDistance
Intrepid Director i10K256Duplex 10Gb/s<2 microsec2000KM/2Gb/s
Intrepid Director 6140140Duplex 10Gb/s<2 microsec35KM/2Gb/s
Intrepid Director 606464 scaleableDuplex 2Gb/s<2 microsec35KM/2Gb/s
Sphereon Fabric Switch 45008, 16, 24Duplex 2.125Gb/s<1 microsec10KM/2Gb/s
Sphereon Fabric Switch 43004, 8, 12Duplex 2.125Gb/s<1 microsec10KM/2Gb/s
Sphereon Fabric Switch 323216, 24, 32Duplex 2.125Gb/s<2 microsec60KM/2Gb/s
Eclipse SAN Router 430016FC/GE, 4TCP/IPDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A
Eclipse SAN Router 33008FC/GE, 2TCP/IPDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A
Eclipse SAN Router 264012FC, 4GEDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A
Eclipse SAN Router 16202FC, 2TCP/IPDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A
IPS Storage Switch 430016FC/GE, 4TCP/IPDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A
IPS Storage Switch 33008FC/GE, 2TCP/IPDuplex 1Gb/sWire speedN/A

Intrepid Directors

Built on 20 years of networking experience, McDATA Intrepid™ 6000 Series Directors are the unsurpassed platform for building powerful, reliable and flexible storage networks. Designed for organizations with extremely large data needs, Intrepid™ Directors extend uncompromised connectivity (up to 140 ports per device) within SANs, 2Gb/sec. protocol speeds (upgradeable to 10Gbs/sec.) and ultra-high availability to larger storage networks and mainframe FICON environments.
Today's growing enterprise needs to reduce costs and make the best use of storage equipment—and they must find new solutions to simplify diverse storage networking environments. The Intrepid® i10K, the first True Backbone Director, delivers the solution.

  • Ensure business continuance through 99.999%
  • Maximize system administrator resources with centralized management
  • Deliver consistent high performance
  • Provide investment protection
Intrepid i10K Director

The i10K acts as the "backbone" of the enterprise data center—it delivers the unmatched availability, performance and scalability you need to support your most important data and carry the highest data traffic. With Director FlexPar™ technology (hard partitioning), you can consolidate your multi-vendor fabrics while maintaining secure separation by data, management and Fibre Channel Services. With "carrier-class" availability, dynamic port allocation and intelligent fabric services, it's the ideal backbone for your enterprise.

  • Highly scalable architecture only pay for what you need
  • Any-to-any connectivity
  • Redundant components for ultra-reliability
  • 64 ports fit within a 9u footprint for space efficiency
  • All components hot-swappable
Intrepid 6064 Director

The 64-port Intrepid 6064 Director is a cost-effective solution for businesses needing director-class performance and reliability with fewer connection requirements. It offers pay-as-you grow scalability and ultra-high availability.

  • Highly scalable architecture only pay for what you need
  • Any-to-any connectivity
  • Redundant components for ultra-reliability
  • 64 ports fit within a 9u footprint for space efficiency
  • All components hot-swappable
Intrepid 6140 Director

Availability, scalability, reliability—the 140-port Intrepid 6140 Director is the ideal high-performing, flexible building block for today’s very large, data-dependent enterprises.
  • 4-port increments for unbeatable scalability (up to 140 ports/unit)
  • Support for 2Gb/s FICON and Fibre Channel
  • Robust, reliable software for management of heterogeneous environments
  • Exclusive HotCAT™ technology for hot-loading and activation of microcode
  • Built to last, with future support for emerging technologies


Sphereon Fabric Switches

McDATA Sphereon™ Fabric Switches: Connecting the storage resources of today’s leading organizations. For companies that want unprecedented connectivity on demand, McDATA Sphereon™ Fabric Switches are the preferred choice. These cost-effective switches give customers the fabric-level features of a large enterprise SAN in a small package. And because all McDATA switches, including the award-winning Sphereon™ 4500, let customers pay for only the ports they use, they’re the perfect building blocks for today’s small and mid-sized enterprise applications.
  • High value, cost-effective switches with more standard features
  • Connectivity on demand
  • Nondisruptive management and upgrading
  • Superior scalability
  • Unique functionality
  • Best-in-class availability
Sphereon™ 4300 Fabric Switch
The 12-port Sphereon™ 4300 extends the advantages of the award-winning Sphereon 4500 to the entry level with premium functionality priced right for first-time SAN installations or at the edge of the enterprise. The Sphereon™ 4300 is the only entry fabric switch to provide unique features such as HotCAT™ online code activation and FlexPort Technology capacity on demand.

  • Pay-as-you-grow connectivity
  • Exceptional reliability
  • Exclusive HotCAT™ technology
  • Non-disruptive installation
  • FlexPort technology
Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch
The 24-port Sphereon™ 4500 offers unprecedented connectivity on demand with McDATA's exclusive FlexPort Technology. Minimize your initial SAN investment by purchasing only the ports you need today, while having standby capacity for tomorrow. Additional connectivity can be added quickly and non-disruptively to any Sphereon 4500 in your storage network.
  • Pay-as-you-grow connectivity
  • Exceptional reliability
  • Exclusive HotCAT™ technology
  • SANpilot™ management tool
  • Loop Fibre Channel support
  • Non-disruptive installation
  • FlexPort technology
Sphereon™ 3232 Fabric Switch
The 32-port Sphereon™ 3232 offers high performance with 2Gb/s non-blocking bandwidth for every port. The Sphereon 3232 is the only 32-port switch offering McDATA's exclusive FlexPort Technology for connectivity on demand.
  • 2Gb/s non-blocking connectivity
  • 120 km distance support
  • Hot-plug redundant power and cooling
  • High port density
  • Flexport technology
  • Exclusive HotCAT™ technology


Eclipse SAN Routers

McDATA's Eclipse™ line of multi-protocol SAN routers unify storage and IP networking architectures to deliver unprecedented scalability, distance-independence and multi-protocol access to traditional SANs. Whether companies are looking for greater data center storage consolidation, streamlining backup operations across the global enterprise, or implementing business continuance and disaster recovery strategies, McDATA's Eclipse™ switches are the best-in-class products to get the job done. The multi-protocol switches provide the performance and scalability required for large enterprise applications, while also being cost-effective for small and mid-sized enterprise applications.
  • High value, cost-effective switches with more standard features
  • Flexibility via multi-protocol connectivity
  • Higher availability through fault isolation
  • Superior scalability
  • Unique functionality
Eclipse™ 4300 SAN Router
The Eclipse™ 4300 multi-protocol SAN routers use standards-based IP, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and Fibre Channel (FC) for wire-speed storage fabric connectivity with the millions of IP-based LAN, MAN, and WAN routers and switches already installed and mastered by IT professionals. Eclipse™ 4300 SAN Routers are qualified with all major storage plat-forms, including EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, XIOtech, Sun, StorageTek and LSI Logic.
  • FC, GE, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Support for full fabric, private and public loop FC devices
  • E_Port for integration into existing FC fabrics
  • SAN internetworking to build large, stable FC fabrics
  • Integration of multi-vendor FC fabrics
  • Maximized throughput across long distances
  • Quality of Service (QoS): Bandwidth Management
Eclipse™ 3300 SAN Router
The Eclipse™ 3300 multi-protocol SAN routers use standards-based IP, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and Fibre Channel (FC) for wire-speed storage fabric connectivity with the millions of IP-based LAN, MAN, and WAN routers and switches already installed and mastered by IT professionals. Eclipse™ 3300 SAN Routers are qualified with all major storage plat-forms, including EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, XIOtech, Sun, StorageTek and LSI Logic.
  • FC, GE, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Support for full fabric, private and public loop FC devices
  • E_Port for integration into existing FC fabrics
  • SAN internetworking to build large, stable FC fabrics
  • Integration of multi-vendor FC fabrics
  • Maximized throughput across long distances
  • Quality of Service (QoS): Bandwidth Management
Eclipse™ 2640 SAN Router
The McDATA Eclipse™ 2640 SAN Router is the next generation of multi-protocol storage solutions. It delivers multi-vendor, multi-protocol connectivity within the data center and beyond. The Eclipse™ 2640 supports industry standard protocols such as iSCSI, iFCP and E_Port and can be used for SAN island integration, business continuance/disaster recovery planning, storage consolidation, remote tape vaulting, content distribution and iSCSI access to Fibre Channel storage.
  • FC, Ethernet, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Broadest range of E-Port interoperability with multi-vendor fabrics
  • True FC routing for maximum scalability and fault isolation
  • Compression to lower WAN bandwidth costs
  • Fast Write technology maximizes throughput across long distances
  • Offers both Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
Eclipse™ 1620 SAN Router
The Eclipse™ 1620 is a multi-protocol switch with unprecedented functionality and cost-effectiveness. Part of McDATA’s family of open storage networking products that uses standards-based IP, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and Fibre Channel (FC) for wire-speed storage fabric connectivity. Can be deployed for multiple, concurrent applications, including business continuance/disaster recovery, storage consolidation, remote tape vaulting, content distribution, and iSCSI access to FC storage.
  • FC, Ethernet, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Compression to lower WAN bandwidth costs
  • Fast Write technology maximizes throughput across long distances
  • E_Port for integration into existing multi-vendor fabrics
  • Offers both Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
  • Support for full fabric, private and public loop FC devices
  • High performance with an affordable price


SANavigator

Today's complex storage area networks (SANs) require sophisticated software applications to plan, discover, configure and monitor the many components and technologies that make up the storage network infrastructure. McDATA's SANavigator® software allows you to better manage your storage networking assets. This comprehensive and intuitive application lets IT administrators manage their entire fabric, improve their operational efficiencies and secure their data.
  • Manage your entire fabric
  • Improve your SAN efficiencies
  • Make your data more secure
  • Proactively increase data availability
Features and Functions

Performance Monitoring
Measure the performance trends of every switch port in the SAN and pinpoint bandwidth bottlenecks with SANavigator Performance Monitoring. Real-time link throughput, error rate, and latency monitoring provide instant awareness of any storage network degradation or failure. Maximize the performance of your storage network with the SANavigator Performance tool.

Planning
Widely acknowledged as the best planning tool in the industry, SANavigator Planning helps you design a scalable, cost-effective storage network that's perfectly suited to your needs. Verify storage network models before you implement them to increase your ROI and save valuable time and money.

Event Management
Provides a compelling return on investment with powerful event and schedule-driven automation reduces manual intervention and helps make the most efficient use of your storage network. Once the policies are in place, SANavigator can automate routine tasks such as report generation and device failure response so that you have faster response time and can be freed up to focus on other issues.
Industry standard open interfaces are provided to effectively consolidate and share SAN events with any third-party management application. SNMP traps may be generated based on any user-defined event, and a standard MIB is provided for interpretation.

LUN Management
The SANavigator LUN Management tool gives you the ability to manage the LUNs on storage arrays from EMC, HDS and IBM. With this tool, you'll get the increased data security features associated with LUN masking as well as the ability to create new LUNs on supported storage arrays. Simplify your SAN by using a single application for complete end-to-end management.

SANtegrity Security Center
Extend the security of your fabric through increased and simplified management of the SANtegrity Security Suite. Security Center manages the administration of device secrets for authentication, automates all of the security device settings, generates logs and reports based policies, and much more.

Group Configuration Manager
Allows you to streamline configuration, troubleshooting and analysis on selected groups of McDATA devices, saving you time by reducing repetitive tasks.


SAN Management Foundation Software

While storing your organization's data and information can be complex, managing it all can be inherently more difficult. To help reduce these challenges, McDATA software solutions, including SANavigator® Management Software, SANvergence® Management Suite, Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) and SANpilot®, provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions for seamless SAN management. With these powerful solutions, you can keep a close eye on all multi-protocol SAN devices and connections, configure them to meet the individual needs of your business and even resolve problems before they actually occur. McDATA network storage management software can help you:

Network Security Software

For IT executives, there is a balancing act between providing access to data and providing data security. They must increase access to information to improve business performance, but also limit access to that same data to increase security. McDATA has the software tools IT executives need to protect data and manage rights for optimal data access. McDATA software applications can:

IPS Storage Switch

IPS 3300 Internetworking Switch
The IPS 3300 multi-protocol switches use standards-based IP, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and Fibre Channel (FC) for wire-speed storage fabric connectivity with the millions of IP-based LAN, MAN, and WAN routers and switches already installed and mastered by IT professionals. IPS 3300 switches are qualified with all major storage plat-forms, including EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, XIOtech, Sun, StorageTek and LSI Logic.
  • FC, GE, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Support for full fabric, private and public loop FC devices
  • E_Port for integration into existing FC fabrics
  • SAN Internetworking to build large, stable FC fabrics
  • Integration of multi-vendor FC fabrics
  • Maximized throughput across long distances
  • Quality of Service (QoS): Bandwidth Management
IPS 4300 Internetworking Switch
The IPS 4300 multi-protocol switches use standards-based IP, Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and Fibre Channel (FC) for wire-speed storage fabric connectivity with the millions of IP-based LAN, MAN, and WAN routers and switches already installed and mastered by IT professionals. IPS 4300 switches are qualified with all major storage plat-forms, including EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, XIOtech, Sun, StorageTek and LSI Logic.
  • FC, GE, iSCSI and iFCP connectivity
  • Support for full fabric, private and public loop FC devices
  • E_Port for integration into existing FC fabrics
  • SAN Internetworking to build large, stable FC fabrics
  • Integration of multi-vendor FC fabrics
  • Maximized throughput across long distances
  • Quality of Service (QoS): Bandwidth Management


Fabricenter Cabinet

McDATA offers its sleek rack-and-stack cabinet designed to optimize space and connectivity for Fibre Channel and FICON environments. The FC-512 Fabricenter® is available in various configurations to meet data center requirements. The Management Fabricenter® includes a notebook PC, an Ethernet hub and EFCM software, which provides a fabric-wide view of the entire storage network from a single console. The FC-512 Fabricenter® is an efficient and cost-effective way for IT managers to get a handle on the raised floor space demands in their data centers.
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