Cisco MDS 9200 Switch Family

The Cisco MDS 9200 Multilayer Fabric Switch Family combines multilayer intelligence with a modular chassis, making it the industry's most intelligent and flexible fabric switch.

The expansion slot of the Cisco MDS 9200 allows for the addition of any Cisco MDS 9000 Family module for up to 64 total ports (including 4- and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel), as well as multiprotocol and multitransport integration, support of Fibrechannel, iSCSI, FCIP and FICON in one chassis and embedded intelligent storage services such as network-based virtualization. The Cisco MDS 9216i brings new capability to the fabric switch market.

Sharing a consistent architecture with the Cisco MDS 9500 Series, the Cisco MDS 9216i integrates both Fibre Channel and IP storage services in a single system to allow maximum flexibility in user configurations. With 14 2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, two Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports, and a modular expansion slot, the Cisco MDS 9216i is ideally suited for enterprise storage networks that require high-performance SAN extension or cost-effective IP storage connectivity.

The Cisco MDS 9216A starts with sixteen 2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The expansion slot on the Cisco MDS 9216A allows for the addition of any current or future Cisco MDS 9000 Family module for up to 64 total ports.

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