Cisco MDS 9718 Crossbar Switching Fabric-3 Module - For Switching Fabric - Plug-in Module
The Cisco® MDS 9718 Multilayer Director (Figure 1) has the industry's highest port density for a SAN director, with 768 line-rate 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The Cisco® MDS 9718 supports 768 line-rate 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. This new 32-Gbps line card couples the next-generation port ASICs with a fully dedicated Network Processing Unit designed to complete analytics calculations in real time on the 32-Gbps line card. The MDS 9718 also supports the Cisco 24-port 40-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) line card and Cisco MDS 9000 24/10-Port SAN Extension Module. It is designed for deployment in midsize to large enterprises. The MDS 9718 enables SAN consolidation and collapsed-core solutions for large enterprises, thereby reducing the number of managed switches and leading to easy-to-manage solutions, providing more front-panel ports by reducing the number of ports used on Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), and offering room for future growth.
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Cisco MDS 9718 Multilayer Director
