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Data Sheet

Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

Product Overview

Enable enterprise clouds. Transform large storage networks. Lower operating costs. Deploy Fibre Channel, IBM

Fibre Connectivity (FICON), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on a single

fabric. With the Cisco

MDS 9710 Multilayer Director (Figure 1), you’ll meet the stringent requirements of large

virtualized storage environments. As a director-class SAN switch, the MDS 9710 uses the same operating system

and management interface as other Cisco data center switches. It brings intelligent capabilities to a high-

performance, protocol-

independent switch fabric. You’ll gain uncompromising availability, security, and scalability;

simplified management; and the capability to flexibly integrate new technologies.

Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

Product Highlights

The MDS 9710 offers the following features:

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Outstanding SAN performance: The combination of the 16-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module and Cisco

Fabric-1 crossbar switching modules enables up to 1.5 terabits per second (Tbps) of front-panel Fibre

Channel throughput between modules in each direction for each of the eight MDS 9710 payload slots. This

is twice the bandwidth needed to support a 48-port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel module at full line rate. Based

on central arbitration and a crossbar fabric, the MDS 9710 architecture provides 16-Gbps line-rate,

nonblocking, predictable performance for all traffic conditions for every port in the chassis.

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High availability: Get best-in-class availability. The MDS 9710 is the first director-class switch in which all

major components, even the fabric card, are redundant. Obtain grid redundancy with the power supply and

1+1 redundant supervisors, and add another fabric card to enable N+1 fabric redundancy. The MDS 9710