The Cisco® MDS 9700 48-Port 32-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module (Figure 1) delivers predictable performance, scalability, and innovative features to support private and virtualized data centers. With industry-leading 768 line-rate 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports per director, the 32-Gbps 48-port Fibre Channel switching module meets the high-performance needs for flash-memory and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel workloads. It offers innovative services including virtual machine awareness, on-board Fibre Channel analytics engine, E-port and F-port diagnostics, integrated VSANs, Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), and port channels. It delivers full-duplex aggregate performance of 1536 Gbps, making it well suited for high-speed 32-Gbps storage subsystems, 32-Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), high-performance virtualized servers, and all-flash and NVMe arrays.
Products specifications
| Attribute name |
Attribute value |
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Width
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15.9" |
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Depth
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21.8" |
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Height
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1.73" |
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Weight
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17.5 lbs |
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Access Control List (ACL)
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Yes |
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Management platform
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SSHv2, SNMPv3, SFTP |
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Data transfer rate
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32 Gbit/s |
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Fiber ports quantity
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48 |
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Quality of Service (QoS) support
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Yes |
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Operating temperature (T-T)
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0 - 40 °C |
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Storage temperature (T-T)
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-40 - 70 °C |
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Operating relative humidity (H-H)
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10 - 90 % |
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Storage relative humidity (H-H)
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10 - 95 % |
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Operating altitude
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-2362.2 - 7874" |
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Security algorithms
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AES, SNMP, SSH-2 |
