Leading market research agencies have indicated Brocade to be the most likely candidate to break the monopoly of the other major vendor of routers and switches. Fortune magazine even considers Brocade a formidable competitor amongst manufacturers of Internet backbones. The acquisition of Foundry Networks means Brocades realm of power may continue to grow.
Brocade offers solutions for storage networks and switches and routers filtering, forwarding ánd routing packets at wirespeed. Brocade also delivers switches (re)routing data at layers 4-7 and checks whether the systems attached to it are still active (health check). Brocade is the only vendor integrally offering this functionality.
IronWare, the identical Brocade software incorporated in all switches and routing switches, offers a unique set of functions for e.g. server load balancing, firewall load balancing and transparent cache switching. Therefore, Brocade systems offer maximum flexibility and availability within your network, no matter the configuration of it.