Cisco MDS 9000 Multiservice Module

Cisco MDS 9000 Multiservice Module ... solutions, distributed intelligent fabric services, and cost-effective IP storage and mainframe connectivity in mission-critical enterprise storage networks.

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module provides multiprotocol capabilities integrating, in a single-form-factor Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI), IBM Fiber Connnectivity (FICON), FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) management, and switch cascading.

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module is ideal for mission-critical enterprise storage networks that require secure, robust, cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuance services. The module uses Cisco expertise and knowledge of IP networks to deliver outstanding SAN extension performance, minimizing latency for disk and tape with FCIP acceleration features including FCIP write acceleration, and FCIP tape write and read acceleration. Hardware-based encryption secures sensitive traffic with IP Security (IPsec), and hardware-based compression dramatically enhances performance for both high- and low-speed links, enabling immediate cost savings in expensive WAN infrastructure.

Natively integrating the support for intelligent fabric applications, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module provides a platform for distributed fabric services such as Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), which encrypts data at rest on heterogeneous tape drives and virtual tape libraries (VTLs). The module can transparently offer such advanced functions to any device connected to the fabric, facilitating ease of deployment, scalability, and high availability through clustering.