Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Fabric Switches is a practical guide to all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibre-based switches to an IP-based network. It begins with a detailed analysis of the benefits of implementing a SAN and an examination of the hardware and bandwidth requirements. From there, it proceeds to a discussion of the Brocade SilkWorm series of fibre channel switches and how the various switches are configured to connect a SAN with existing LANs.