Designed
to the Core™ for Open Systems
Finally, there’s a new class of core switch that represents
a sane alternative to quarter million dollar Director switches.
The SANbox 9000 series is designed to the core for cost sensitive,
business-critical, open system environments that require a
ultra-high density, blazing performance, 99.999% availability,
intelligent, switch platform for their data center core. SANbox
9000 series represents a number of industry firsts: a stackable
chassis for simple, cost-effective scalability, a 4U chassis
for smaller footprint, the simplicity and economies of Customer
Replaceable Units (CRUs) and a comprehensive set of core switch
software management tools included as standard. Best of all,
pricing starts at under $100K.
The highly scalable SANbox 9000 is a stackable
chassis switch with a dedicated 800Gb/s HyperStack™
connection between as many as two chassis modules. The high
port count SANbox 9000 supports up to 256 ports in a dual
chassis configuration. The intelligent SANbox 9000 offers
in one chassis module: 8 slots for any mix of 4Gb or 10Gb
Fibre Channel I/O Blades, iSCSI Intelligent Storage Router”
I/O Blades, FCIP Intelligent Storage Router I/O Blades, or
Storage Services Platform (SSP) Blades. For high availability,
the SANbox 9000 features redundant, hot-swap I/O, SSP, CPU,
Power Supply and Fan blades. And for comprehensive fabric
management, the SANbox 9000 includes a powerful and easy-to-use
suite of software tools for setting-up, monitoring, tuning,
troubleshooting and servicing an unlimited number of large
fabrics.
Key Features and Benefits
ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY AND STACKABLE SCALABILITY
At twice the port density of typical 14U Director
switches, the SANbox 9000 stackable chassis switch scales
to 128 ports in a 4U single chassis module or up to 256 ports
in an 8U dual chassis module HyperStack configuration (via
backplane interconnects) – 32 ports per 1U of rack space!
Unlike legacy Director switches, the SANbox 9000 switch provides
a low cost entry point with a 16 4Gb FC port configuration.
Seamlessly grow your 9000 switch in 16 port increments up
to 256 ports
Eight I/O Blade slots per chassis module supporting multi-protocol
and multi-function technologies including:
4Gb FC I/O Blade: for maximum server and storage connectivity.
10Gb FC I/O Blade: high-speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) including
trunking between other Core, Distribution and Edge class switches.
Intelligent Storage Router Blade: iSCSI for connecting low
cost servers and FCIP for replicating data across a WAN
Storage services Platform “SSP” Blade: pool heterogeneous
storage
Broadly deployable in local, campus, distributed and remote
Core/Distribution/Edge configuration topologies.
ENTRY Model SB9100 fully upgradeable in the field to single
or dual HyperStack BASE Model SB9200.
BLAZING PERFORMANCE
Non-blocking, full-duplex bandwidth at 800Gbps in
a single chassis module or a massive 1.6TBps for a dual module
HyperStack™ configuration (64 10Gb or 256 4Gb FC ports)
to enable high Performance Computing, Video and Satellite
Capture data streaming applications.
Industry’s lowest latency and “No-Wait”
routing for maximum transaction performance via powerful embedded
CPU and I/O ASICs.
CUSTOMER REPLACEABLE UNITS (CRUs)
The industry’s first stackable chassis switch
designed for the convenience, simplicity and economies of
Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) for key components.
99.999% availability with redundant, hot-pluggable CPU, Power
Supply, Fan and I/O Blades, non-disruptive code load and activation
(NDCLA) and non-disruptive CPU failover in support of 24x7
mission-critical operations.
LOW TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP
All the benefits of a Director Class switch with
revolutionary pricing that starts under $100K.
Architected for long-term investment flexibility and protection
to deliver a previously unachievable reduction in total Cost
of Ownership (TCO).
For SAN administrators that have invested in multi-vendor
fabrics, the SANbox 9000 is interoperable with all FC-SW-2
compliant Fibre Channel Director, Edge class switches and
popular servers, storage and networking products from major
manufacturers.
Minimize management costs with easy-to-use and comprehensive
Command Line Interface (CLI), QuickTools embedded web interface,
and Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 software tools included with
each SANbox 9000 switch.
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