Frontier provides a solution for the most demanding storage applications with the MDS 9000 Family 4-port 10Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Modules. The 10Gbps 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 4-port 10Gbps Fibre Channel Modules. Contact us today to protect your investment and lower your IT costs at 866-226-6344.

Features

• Provide high Fibre Channel switching performance for ISLs and inter-data center connection over a metro optical infrastructure.
• Up to 16 links in a single PortChannel
• Up to 4095 buffer-to-buffer credits can be assigned to a single Fibre Channel port
• Support for VSAN technology, access control lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and advanced traffic-management features such as Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC) and fabric-wide quality of service (QoS) to enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise-wide storage networks.
• Enables deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SAN topologies
• Supports 10-Gbps ISL connections on individual ports or up to 160-Gbps logical ISLs using the Cisco PortChannel features.
• 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 capabilities
• Up to 44 10-Gbps ports in a single switch and 132 ports per rack