Product description - Cisco SN 5400 Series Storage Routers
Product name - Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router
Introduction
For very economical and cost effective storage-networking solutions, Cisco offers a diversifying range of product portfolio. The Cisco SN 5400 Series Storage Routers deliver intelligent storage-networking solutions for enterprise data centers, remote offices and workgroup applications.
Features
Storage administrators had to face a lot of problems because of the complexity and challenges of installing a Storage Area Network (SAN) in small to medium businesses and enterprise departments before the advent of Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router. With the introduction of the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router, storage networking administrators as well as system administrators have finally got a more cost effective and scalable networked storage solution. Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router focuses purely on Fiber Channel connectivity with a combination of both data networking and storage networking technologies. This particular series of storage router provides advanced network booting feature, which helps servers to be booted from an external storage device across an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) network. Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router provides customers with 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 8 Fiber Channel Fabric switch ports thus helping them to get connected to standard IP networks. Apart from all these this storage router has many advanced features like Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and TACACS+ Authentication, Logical Unit Number (LUN) Mapping, LUN Masking etc.
