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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.
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Key Features and Benefits
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ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY AND STACKABLE SCALABILITY
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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!
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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
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Eight I/O Blade slots per chassis module supporting multi-protocol and
multi-function technologies including:
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4Gb FC I/O Blade: for maximum server and storage connectivity.
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10Gb FC I/O Blade: high-speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) including trunking
between other Core, Distribution and Edge class switches.
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Intelligent Storage Router Blade: iSCSI for connecting low cost servers and
FCIP for replicating data across a WAN
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Storage services Platform “SSP” Blade: pool heterogeneous storage
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Broadly deployable in local, campus, distributed and remote
Core/Distribution/Edge configuration topologies.
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ENTRY Model SB9100 fully upgradeable in the field to single or dual HyperStack
BASE Model SB9200.
BLAZING PERFORMANCE
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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.
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Industry’s lowest latency and “No-Wait” routing for maximum transaction
performance via powerful embedded CPU and I/O ASICs.
CUSTOMER REPLACEABLE UNITS (CRUs)
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The industry’s first stackable chassis switch designed for the convenience,
simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) for key
components.
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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
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All the benefits of a Director Class switch with revolutionary pricing that
starts under $100K.
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Architected for long-term investment flexibility and protection to deliver a
previously unachievable reduction in total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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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.
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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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