IT organizations continue to face unprecedented data growth as more platforms, applications, and users connect to the data center network. In turn, the storage network infrastructure must continue evolving to enable fast, continuous, and cost effective access to mission critical data from anywhere in the world. To address this challenge, the HP 1606 Extension Switch helps provide fast, reliable, and cost-effective network infrastructure for remote data replication, backup, and migration. The 1606 Extension SAN Switch provides a flexible and extensible platform to move more data faster and further than ever before. The HP 1606 Extension SAN Switch offers up to sixteen (16) 8 Gb Fiber Channel ports and six (6) 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports to provide unmatched Fiber Channel and FCIP bandwidth, port density, and throughput for maximum application performance over WAN links.