4 Gb/s, 12-Port Fibre Channel Switch

The NXFS1644 16-port, 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel switch for the high-performance NEXIO? series storage area network (SAN) establishes a new standard for band-width, channel capacity and reliability. Offering a flexible sol......The NXFS1644 16-port, 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel switch for the high-performance NEXIO? series storage area network (SAN) establishes a new standard for band-width, channel capacity and reliability. Offering a flexible solution for expanding the NEXIO shared storage SAN, the NXFS1644 is ideal for those facilities with high-bandwidth and channel count, and high-redundancy requirements. Four 10 Gb/s ISL (InterLink Switch) ports provide redundant data paths where two NXFS1644s are connected together. The NXFS1644’s powerful, easy-to-use management features — engineering quality and commitment to SNMP-standard interoperability — make it a value-packed component of the NEXIO shared SAN. The NXFS1644 increases the effective port count from 14 to 16 over the NXFS1622, because there are an additional 10 Gb/s ports to handle the interlink switch ports for redundancy. A separate failover kit is no longer needed. Initial release of the NXFS1644 supports NEXIO SANs running at 2 Gb/s per port. When NEXIO server platforms, editing platforms and storage arrays support 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel interface, the NXFS1644 can be configured for 4 Gb/s operation.