IBM System Storage SAN48B-5

Feature	Benefits
Gen 5 Fibre Channel switch with 16 Gbps performance and up to 48 ports in an energy-efficient, 1U form factor 2, 4, 8, 10 or 16 Gbps speed on all ports PoD capability for scaling from 24 to 48 ports in 12-port increments 16 Gbps optimized Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) 128 Gbps high-performance and resilient frame-based trunking	Improve flexibility and investment protection Produce an aggregate 768 Gbps full-duplex throughput Meet the demands of hyper-scale private or hybrid cloud storage environments
Multitenancy in cloud environments through Virtual Fabrics, Integrated Routing, Quality of Service (QoS) and fabric-based zoning features 10 Gbps Fibre Channel integration on the same port In-flight data compression and encryption	Build upon a critical building block for today's highly virtualized private or hybrid cloud storage environments Simplify server virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) management Provide dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) metro connectivity on the same switch Meet the high-throughput demands of enterprise data centers Reduce WAN costs and gain data security

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