Enterprise Users preferred Optical Fiber switches have become popular

Fiber switches are quite common, So I studied the most suitable fiber switches for small and medium enterprises. With the increasing number of network data and the frequency of network applications, many enterprises have begun to realize that they need to build their own storage system networks to meet the increasing data storage performance requirements. Currently, the most popular data storage Network is SANStorage Area Network (Storage Area Network), which means connecting the entire storage to the enterprise LAN where the server is located.

It is characterized by the use of fiber channels with high transmission rates to connect to the server network, or the internal components of the SAN network, so that the entire storage network has a very wide bandwidth, this guarantees high-performance data storage. In this SAN storage network, FCSwitch, also known as "Fiber Channel Switch" and "fiber switch", is often heard. It is much different from what we usually see and use fiber switches (mainly reflected in protocol support ). The following describes several excellent optical fiber switch products.

CiscoMDS9134

The CiscoMDS9134 multi-layer matrix switch is designed for large and medium-sized enterprises. It provides 4-Gbps and 10-Gbps line rate Ports Based on the dedicated "On-Chip switching" application-specific ic asic. MDS9134 provides the flexibility to expand from 24 ports to 32 ports in an increment of 8 ports, and allows two 10-Gbps ports to be activated, this satisfies the density requirements of the switches above the rack and the edge access switches in the enterprise SAN. The product adopts a non-congested architecture and supports all 32 4-Gbps ports and two 10-Gbps ports running at the same time at the same speed.

MDS9134 provides 10-Gbps ports that support multiple Fiber Channel connections and uses 10-Gbps fiber switches to connect ISL to core products of the CiscoMDS 9000 Series. The Cisco MDS 9134 can also be stacked using a copper CX4 X2 transceiver to provide a cost-effective density of up to 64 ports.

In terms of security, MDS9134 supports RADIUS and TACACS +, port security, matrix binding, fiber channel Security Protocol FC-SP) authentication between hosts and fiber switches, secure FTPSFTP), Secure Shell version 2SSHv2), implements Advanced Encryption Standard AES (Simple Network Management Protocol version 3SNMPv3), VSAN, hardware-based partitions, broadcast areas, and role-based VSAN-based access control (RBAC ).

This product supports fast configuration and task wizard, so you can quickly and easily deploy it in a network of any size. MDS9134 Based on CiscoMDS9000 SAN-OS software, provides advanced storage network features and functions and is compatible with Cisco MDS 9500 series multilayer guide and Cisco MDS 9200 series multilayer matrix fiber switches, provide transparent and end-to-end services in core-edge deployment.