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High performance medium-size and enterprise SAN router provides sixteen 1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fiber Channel switch ports and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports for fabric switching, interconnection of multiple Fibre Channel fabrics and hardware-assisted traffic processing for long-distance extension using Internet Protocol. A variety of short wave and long wave Small Form-factor Pluggable optical transceivers are supported. The base router includes WEB TOOLS and Advanced Zoning, FC-FC Routing Service, FCIP Tunneling Service and Extended Fabric.

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Product OverviewIBM System Storage SAN18B-R multiprotocol router
Ports18 ports (16 FC and 2 IP)
Link Speed1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and GbE IP using short wave or long wave optical transceivers
Operating SystemsIBM System i, System p and System x families of servers and other selected IBM servers, other Intel processor-based servers, and selected Sun and HP servers
Optional FeaturesFCIP Activation, Advanced Security, Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, and Performance Monitoring.