Product Description - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches
Product Name - Cisco MDS 9020 Series Fabric Switch
Introduction
The Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN Switches provide customers with the most economic and demanding storage environments. The robust and flexible hardware architecture of these series of switches with multiple layers of network and intelligent storage management, help people in building scalable storage networks with advanced security features.
Features
The Cisco MDS 9020 Series Fabric Switch provides an intelligent storage area network (SAN) to any enterprise. This switch has advanced storage networking capabilities meant for organizations of all sizes, thus giving edge to any business. The Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch makes high performance scalable SAN technology available at low cost and is fully compatible with the entire Cisco MDS product family.
This particular switch has 20 x 4Gbps Fiber Channel ports that offer full non-blocking 4-Gbps Fiber Channel performance on 20 line rate ports, supporting an aggregate full duplex bandwidth of 160Gbps.
In a highly available storage area-networking environment Cisco MDS 9020 Series Fabric Switch helps to maintain non-disruptive software upgrades. It ensures high scalability and compatibility even if the storage area network grows.
