
Cisco Broadens Storage Networking Portfolio to Address Massive Data Growth across Small to Cloud-Scale Storage Networks Cisco MDS 9148S is Industrys Most Affordable 16G Fabric Switch; Cisco MDS 9706 Storage Director Delivers Enterprise-Class Features in a Compact Size; Cisco MDS 9700 FCoE Module Enables Multi-Protocol Networking Fabrics
Cisco is extending the industry-leading MDS 9700 Director-class family with the addition of a smaller-footprint MDS 9706 switch for space-constrained deployments.
Cisco MDS 9700 48-port 10Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Switching Module
The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch is a highly affordable, versatile, easy-to-manage storage networking switch for entry-level and departmental SANs.
SAN JOSE, Calif. July 31, 2014 Addressing the ever-increasing demand for storage in today's IT environments, driven by explosive data growth from video applications, the Internet of Everything (IoE) and Big Data, Cisco today announced next-generation storage area networking (SAN) additions for its Data Center portfolio. According to the EMC Digital Universe Study with research and analysis by IDC, April 2014, data produced will grow 10 times by 2020, from 4.4ZB today to 44ZB; 32 billion Internet of Things devices will be connected to the Internet; 40 percent of data will be touched by cloud; and enterprises will have liability and responsibility for 85 percent of all data. To better manage the resulting performance, scale, and operational management challenges, Cisco continues to innovate multi-protocol storage networking solutions for its unified data center portfolio that merge data center networking and compute functions into one data center fabric, for more efficient business operations and end-to-end management.
Cisco has made a strong investment in its SAN product portfolio to meet performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility requirements for the decade ahead. With more than 125,000 storage networking switches installed at over 20,000 customer sites, the Cisco MDS portfolio offers the highest investment protection and reliability for customer data storage networks.
Cisco introduced the first two members of its 16G fibre channel family- Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director and MDS 9250i MultiServices Switch in 2013. With today's announcement of the Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch, Cisco MDS 9706 Director, and the Cisco MDS 9700 FCoE module, Cisco has a complete 16G portfolio from top-of-rack small SAN switches to the largest SAN products. Furthermore, Cisco provides a complete end-to-end unified data center fabric that is powered by the same NX-OS operating system across its award-winning product line Cisco Nexus for data center Ethernet networking, Cisco MDS for storage networking, and Cisco UCS for compute.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
New Cisco MDS 9148S
The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch is a highly affordable, versatile, easy-to-manage storage networking switch for entry-level and departmental SANs.
The Cisco MDS 9148S, based on the Cisco switch on a chip Storage Networking ASIC, delivers 16 Gbps dedicated Fibre Channel bandwidth per port.
The Cisco MDS 9148S is available in a base configuration of 12-ports with on-demand pay as you grow 12-port activation license to scale up to 48-ports. A fully configured 48-port configuration is also available for ease of ordering.
A Quick Configuration Wizard is available for simple out-of-the-box configuration
Enterprise-class capabilities such as non-disruptive upgrades, Virtual SANs (VSANs), Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), QOS, Port Channels, N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) are available
Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and fans provide high availability.
New Cisco MDS 9706 Director
Cisco is extending the industry-leading MDS 9700 Director-class family with the addition of a smaller-footprint MDS 9706 switch for space-constrained deployments, offering high performance, high availability with fully redundant components, and multi-protocol flexibility.
The Cisco MDS 9706 Director is housed in a compact 9 rack-unit (RU) form factor to make optimal use of valuable data center floor space.
The Cisco MDS 9706 Director offers unmatched flexibility with support for a variety of protocols, including the industry's leading port densities of up to 192 16-Gbps line-rate Fibre Channel ports, or 10-Gbps line-rate Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) ports, or in the future FICON, on the same 9RU form factor modular chassis.
The Cisco MDS 9706 Director offers the industry's highest performance with 1.5 Tbps per slot switching capability and up to 12-Tbps front-panel switching capacity thereby providing investment protection for future deployment of next-generation Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocols.
The Cisco MDS 9706 Director offers the industry's highest reliability with N+1 fabric redundancy, hot-swappable redundant supervisors, power supplies, and fans. True front-to-back air flow enables hot-cold aisle deployments
New Cisco MDS 9700 FCoE linecard
With the Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Module, the Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Director platforms now offer multiprotocol flexibility for SANs.
Through deployment of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), enterprises can converge Ethernet LAN and Fibre Channel SAN thereby saving money, simplifying management, reducing power and cooling requirements, and improving flexibility; while maintaining the low-latency, deterministic, and network management attributes of Fibre Channel.
The Cisco MDS 9700 FCoE Module extends the benefits of FCoE beyond the access layer by bridging converged multi-hop FCoE SANs to FC SANs.
The Cisco MDS 9700 FCoE Module, the industry's highest-density FCoE module available in a Fibre Channel Director, is designed to ena
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