This is the first book to focus on Brocade products - an innovative technology company to watch out for! Brocade Switches provide the intelligent architecture that connects Storage Area Networks (SANs) to Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Brocade switches provide the same functionality to Storage Area Networks as Cisco switches provide to the Internet - Brocade Communications, Inc is the dominant company in this rapidly expanding market. Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Fabric Switches is written for system administrators who are designing, building, and maintaining Storage Area Networks with Brocade fibre switches. The book provides the reader with all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibre-based switches with an IP-based network. This is the first vendor-specific book on configuring industry standard technologies with a practical approach; while competitive books are mostly theoretical. IT Professionals must know how to design and build a SAN. Often over 50 per cent of IT budgets are devoted to storage. Fibre-switched SANs are the market standard.