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Why MDS 9718?
Front-Back
Airflow
Introducing Industry’s
Highest Port Density
32G Director
• 3X Performance of competition
• 200% more ports than competition with line-rate 768 16G FC Ports
Build High-Performance, High-Density Networks
Save Dollars, Invest in the future
• 32G ready for line-rate 768 FC ports
• Same line-cards, NXOS, power supplies across 9700 Directors
• Redundancy on SUP, Fabric, N:N (6+6 Power Supplies) Power Grid Redundancy
• Reduced failure domains, ISSU, Hardware slow drain, drop corrupted frames
Think Zero Downtime With the Highest Availability
Reduce Complexity, Accelerate Management
• Programmability and automation with Restful-based NXAPI
• Power On Auto Provisioning automates configuration