Designed for high performance with 4 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) ports and hardware-assisted traffic processing for line-rate performance across Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) ports
Utilizes existing Internet, IP-based Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures for metro and global SAN extension for business continuity solutions
Hardware-based compression, large window sizes and selective acknowledgement of IP packets designed to optimize performance of SAN extension over IP networks
Integrated IBM System Storage™ SAN b-type (Brocade) switch management helps simplify installation and administration and helps provide fabric investment protection
A wide range of IBM System Storage mid-range and enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions can be created with the IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router. Infrastructure simplification solutions for the IBM Power™ Systems and System x™ family include disaster tolerance over metropolitan and global IP networks with IBM System Storage disk arrays, tape libraries and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager data protection software.
Local site infrastructure simplification solutions may be extended to one or more remote sites for enhanced data protection and disaster tolerance. The IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router provides Fibre Channel over IP and FCIP Tunneling Service for distance extension which can enable cost effective and manageable metro and global business continuity solutions. This extended distance connectivity can help create consolidated remote tape vaulting data protection plus metro mirror and global mirror disk-based disaster tolerant solutions.
Common features
Hardware summary
Designed for high performance with 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) ports and hardware-assisted traffic processing for line-rate performance across Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) ports.
Can utilize existing Intranet, IP-based Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures for metro and global SAN extension for business continuity solutions.
Integrated IBM System Storage SAN b-type (Brocade®) switch management helps simplify installation and administration and helps provide fabric investment protection.
1U 19" packaging designed for rack-mount or table-top.
Designed for high-performance with 4 Gigabit per second (Gbps) fibre channel ports and 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet ports.
Supports 4, 2 and 1 Gbps FC link speeds.
Speed auto-sensing capabilities provide backward compatibility with 2 and 1 Gbps fibre channel links.
Shortwave and longwave SFPs can be intermixed in the same router to meet unique requirements.
Full Fabric operation and Universal Port Operation are available on all ports.
Optional Inter Switch Link (ISL) Trunking is supported on all active ports.
Hardware-based compression.
Extensive buffering.
Hierarchical routing services.
SAN isolation from Internet, Wide Area Network (WAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) failures.
Scalable remote-site fan-in.
Hardware-based encryption.
Write acceleration for fast replication performance.
