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Brocade Unveils 1st Fabric Adapter Technology: Page 2 of 2

Analyst reports, press articles and the blogosphere are full of commentary about new fabric architectures from Brocade, Cisco and Juniper, that are designed for flatter scale-out in virtualized clouds, LAN/SAN convergence and 40/100Gbs performance. Brocade was the first to introduce this class of fabric with the unveiling of its Brocade One architecture, VCS technology and VDX switches in June of 2010. Cloud-optimized fabrics built with this class of technology connect virtual servers and their
Frank Berry
May 02, 2011

Brocade's adapter business is growing rapidly, albeit on a small base. If FA technology proves to be an important inflection point for IT managers who like the idea of converging their server ports without the complication and cost of FCoE, then early FA incumbent Brocade will be in a great position to turn its industry-first technology into a bigger share of the $1.8 billion network adapter market.

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