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Introducing the Ultimate
Platform for Enterprise-Wide Growth
The McDATA Galaxy-Class
ED-6064 Director represents the fifth generation of McDATA's
world-class backbone directors. McDATA pioneered director
technology and continues to lead the industry today. Which
is why McDATA Directors are found at the heart of 70 percent
of Fourtune 100 companies world-wide–all featuring our
infinitely scalable E-Series architecture, our proprietary
E/OS™, and our unique Viper SAN engine.
- Continuous uptime for
mission-critical applications
You are investing thousands or millions of dollars in
fault tolerant servers, RAID storage and high
availability applications. Your storage network is
another critical component that cannot go down. The
ED-6064 Director ensures data is continuously online
with the highest level of availability on the market -
99.999%. With redundancy of all major components,
automatic fail over and call home alerts, the ED-6064
provides bulletproof access to mission critical data.
- Scalable infrastructure
to grow with business needs
With change a certainty in today's fast paced business
environment, you need a storage networking building
block that can seamlessly grow as you do. With 32 to 64
ports in four-port increments, the ED-6064 allows you to
add the right amount of connectivity on the fly. The
ED-6064 also easily integrates with McDATA's entire
family of switching products.
- Best-of-breed SAN
management software
McDATA's EFC Manager software centralizes the
management of multiple, distributed directors and
switches in an enterprise-wide SAN. This intuitive
software simplifies the addition of managed directors
and switches as the SAN grows. Administrators can use
the EFC Manager software from a single workstation
located anywhere in the enterprise.
- Light speed performance
With deadlines and quotas looming, you cannot afford
an information bottleneck. The ED-6064 is the only SAN
switch that provides 64 non-blocking ports for the
highest throughput possible. With a self healing
architecture that automatically reroutes traffic as
required, you can be assured that your network will not
get in the way of getting business done.
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