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Brocade Answers Your Questions

After Brocade announced so-called "adaptive networking" for its HBAs earlier this week, at least one inquiring mind was spurred to question a few details of the announcement. Following are the unedited responses we got from Brocade experts via email after passing the queries along:

Question: Does the Brocade HBA have application-specific bandwidth distribution on the FC-3 level?

Brocade director of product marketing Herman Chao: Application-specific bandwidth is maintained across the entire FC stack with Brocade adaptive networking technology that dedicates independent hardware resources through virtual channels to applications.

Question: Do high-end servers produce enough data to fill
the 8G I/O pipe?

Chao: Yes, there are high-end servers that can produce enough data to fill an 8G I/O pipe for particular applications, such as video editing or storage back-up transfers from a single server to multiple storage arrays. Consolidation of applications on virtualized servers will also continue to drive performance demands for HBAs.

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