Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module

The Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module delivers state-of-the-art multiprotocol and distributed multiservice convergence, offering high-performance SAN extension and disaster recovery solutions, intelligent fabric services such as Cisco MDS Storage Media Encryption, and cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity.

The Cisco MDS 18/4-Port Multiservice Module offers eighteen 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports and four Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports. It is supported in the Cisco MDS 9200 Series Switches and Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors, continuing to deliver significant investment protection only available with Cisco MDS 9000 Family SANs.

Product highlights include:

• Integrated hardware-based Virtual Fabric isolation with VSANs and Fibre Channel Routing with Inter-VSAN Routing
• Remote SAN Extension with high-performance Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
• Long distance over Fibre Channel with extended buffer-to-buffer credits
• Multiprotocol and Mainframe support (FC, FCIP, iSCSI and FICON)
• IPv6 capability
• Platform for intelligent fabric applications such as Storage Media Encryption
• Supported without limitation in MDS 9200 and MDS 9500 Series chassis