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 |
|---|
| Width | 15.9" |
| Depth | 21.8" |
| Height | 1.73" |
| Weight | 17.5 lbs |
| Access Control List (ACL) | Yes |
| Management platform | SSHv2, SNMPv3, SFTP |
| Data transfer rate | 32 Gbit/s |
| Fiber ports quantity | 48 |
| Quality of Service (QoS) support | Yes |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 40 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C |
| Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 10 - 90 % |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 10 - 95 % |
| Operating altitude | -2362.2 - 7874" |
| Security algorithms | AES, SNMP, SSH-2 |