Frontier provides a solution for the most demanding storage applications with the MDS 9000 Family 4Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Modules. The 4Gbps Fibre Channel switching modules are compatible MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors as well as MDS 9216A and MDS 9216i multilayer fabric switches. Frontier offers used and refurbished MDS9000 Family 4Gbps Fibre Channel Modules. Contact us today to protect your investment and lower your IT costs at 866-226-6344.

Features

• Up to sixteen links in a single PortChannel
• Up to 4095 buffer-to-buffer credits can be assigned to a single Fibre Channel port
• Provides integrated support for VSAN technology, access control lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and advanced traffic-management features
• Enables deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SAN topologies
• Supports 1/2/4-Gbps FICON environments, including cascaded FICON fabrics, VSAN-enabled intermix of mainframe and open systems environments, and N_Port ID virtualization for mainframe Linux partitions.
• Supports RADIUS and TACACS+, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3) implementing Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), VSANs, hardware-enforced zoning, ACLs, and per-VSAN role-based access control.
• Provides intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding, and network analysis tools as well as integrated Call Home capability
• Provides 12-port, 24-port, and 48-port configurations
• Up to 528 Fibre Channel ports per chassis and 1584 ports per rack