{"id":22959,"date":"2026-09-08T02:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:33:24","slug":"k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K2Q83A Technical Specifications<\/p>\n<p>HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch<\/p>\n<p>Manufacture: HP<\/p>\n<p>Manufacture Part Number: K2Q83A<\/p>\n<p>Form Factor: 1U Rack-mountable<\/p>\n<p>Ports: 12 \u00d7 Fibre Channel ports<\/p>\n<p>Port Speed: 16Gbps per port<\/p>\n<p>Switching Type: Fibre Channel (SAN) switching<\/p>\n<p>Expansion: Ports-on-Demand upgradeable (model-dependent)<\/p>\n<p>Management: Web-based GUI, CLI, SNMP<\/p>\n<p>Features: Zoning, traffic prioritization, advanced fabric services<\/p>\n<p>Reliability: Hot-swappable components, redundant design<\/p>\n<p>Use Case: Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K2Q83A Overview<\/p>\n<p>The HP Brocade K2Q83A is a high-performance 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN switch designed for enterprise storage networks. With 12 Fibre Channel ports, it provides flexible connectivity between servers and storage arrays, ensuring fast, secure, and low-latency data transfers. Each port supports auto-negotiation for 4, 8, and 16Gbps speeds, making it backward-compatible with existing SAN infrastructures while supporting future scalability. The switch includes advanced fabric services such as zoning, traffic prioritization, and robust management tools via GUI, CLI, and SNMP, enabling administrators to build highly secure and optimized storage environments. Its ports-on-demand feature allows scalability by activating additional ports as needed, ensuring investment protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[504],"product_cat":[3041,332],"product_tag":[2916,2492,3214,3215],"class_list":["post-22959","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-hp","product_cat-hp-network-switch","product_cat-network-switches","product_tag-1u-rack-mountable","product_tag-hot-swappable","product_tag-redundant-design","product_tag-san-switch","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"K2Q83A Overview The HP Brocade K2Q83A is a high-performance 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN switch designed for enterprise storage networks. With 12 Fibre Channel ports, it provides flexible connectivity between servers and storage arrays, ensuring fast, secure, and low-latency data transfers. Each port supports auto-negotiation for 4, 8, and 16Gbps speeds, making it backward-compatible with existing SAN infrastructures while supporting future scalability. The switch includes advanced fabric services such as zoning, traffic prioritization, and robust management tools via GUI, CLI, and SNMP, enabling administrators to build highly secure and optimized storage environments. Its ports-on-demand feature allows scalability by activating additional ports as needed, ensuring investment protection.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Geek Tech Sol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-08T02:33:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/\",\"name\":\"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-08T02:33:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-08T02:33:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/product\\\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Shop\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/index.php\\\/shop\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Geek Tech Sol\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/geektechsol.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol","og_description":"K2Q83A Overview The HP Brocade K2Q83A is a high-performance 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN switch designed for enterprise storage networks. With 12 Fibre Channel ports, it provides flexible connectivity between servers and storage arrays, ensuring fast, secure, and low-latency data transfers. Each port supports auto-negotiation for 4, 8, and 16Gbps speeds, making it backward-compatible with existing SAN infrastructures while supporting future scalability. The switch includes advanced fabric services such as zoning, traffic prioritization, and robust management tools via GUI, CLI, and SNMP, enabling administrators to build highly secure and optimized storage environments. Its ports-on-demand feature allows scalability by activating additional ports as needed, ensuring investment protection.","og_url":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/","og_site_name":"Geek Tech Sol","article_modified_time":"2026-09-08T02:33:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":800,"url":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/","url":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/","name":"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch - Geek Tech Sol","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-08T02:33:17+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-08T02:33:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HP-K2Q83A.jpg","width":800,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/product\/k2q83a-hp-brocade-12-ports-16gbps-fibre-channel-san-switch\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shop","item":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/shop\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"K2Q83A HP Brocade 12-Ports 16Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/","name":"Geek Tech Sol","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/geektechsol.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geektechsol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}