Brocade Ethernet Switches Reviews

I use Brocade Ethernet Switches because they are scalable. I recommend them since they are easy to configure. They are connected and used every day in our operations.

It is good and scalable. It is easy to configure and provides good technical support.

The most valuable feature of Brocade Ethernet Switches is the good range of access it provides.

Brocade Ethernet Switches could improve by having better compatibility with web management of older versions.

Our organization has almost all of the financial institutions in Puerto Rico connected simultaneously to our system. We have a firewall first, and then the Brocade system.

All of our switches are layer three, Ethernet solutions, and fiber optic uplink. One of the switches I was using as a mediator between our on-premises solution and DNC. Brocade was the one mediator along with Fortinet.

There are approximately 500 users of the solution inside our organization in different roles and 1500 individuals outside connecting. Brocade requires two engineers, one from our site and one from the vendor's site, to deploy and maintain the solution.

We rely on this solution. Our company provides financial aid to people living in Puerto Rico, and we have been doing this for over ten years, with over five billion dollars in sales. We have been going through these switches with no hacking, breakdown, or any issue with the switches whatsoever. They helped improve our performance. 

I'm primarily using the solution as black and gray switches. I'm not using them as a configured switch. We are using it to extend some networks.

Our old Brocade switches are used for extending our network and are especially used as an extension for urgent matters.

The switches last for a very long time.

It's stable for doing its functions, as a black and gray switch. It's a very good switch, at least the older ones. I've been using them for ten years and they are still in use.

The solution is scalable.

We have found the solution to be easy to set up.

I work as a system infrastructure engineer and our company is a customer of Brocade. 

One of the valuable features of this solution is that it works with the concept of zoning. There's a zone for each server and there are services in the storage. When the link of a full port is failing, it automatically switches to another port so you don't lose the connection. That's pretty important for the high level of availability of the applications and the access to the storage data.

Our primary use case for this solution is for ethernet switches.

The most important feature of this solution is the performance because we have many switches and we have a performance for Brocade Ethernet Switches that needs about 16 gigabyte per second. We have accessed these 16 gigabyte per second.

It's actually a DC device. We are using storage in DC as well as in DR. Because we are a government organization, everything is on-premises.

It has good integration with HPE Primera. They have smart zoning in which the administration is very easy. You don't have to do anything. Zoning and other things are done automatically if you just enable the smart zoning. That's one very good thing in HP.

CLI and supported technologies are very close to Cisco. The support from vendor team is great!

Lowered our network budget.