The Brocade SilkWorm 24000 Director is a highly reliable and intelligent solution for deploying enterprise-class SANs in mission-critical environments. It supports key applications such as data backup, remote mirroring, and high-availability clustering as well as high-volume transaction processing applications such as ERP and data warehousing.With state-of-the-art performance and enhanced scalability for enterprise SAN environments, the SilkWorm 24000 provides unique capabilities to meet a variety of mission-critical requirements. By supporting 128 concurrently active 2 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain, the SilkWorm 24000 offers improved performance, reduced management costs through a higher port/domain ratio and lower total cost of ownership.Designed to integrate with both heterogeneous open system and IBM zSeries server FICON environments, the SilkWorm 24000 gives organizations the flexibility to build cost-effective SANs that support the introduction of utility computing and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).