HPE AE377A Network Switch Networking

The Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch is a twenty port, 4 Gb Fibre Channel switch. The Cisco MDS 9020 is well suited for small to medium businesses that want to deploy cost-effective but scalable, high-performance SANs. The Cisco MDS 9020 is also ideal for branch offices and departments in large enterprises that require management simplicity and easy deployment. It can be used as the foundation of SAN standalone SANs or as an edge switch in larger core-edge SAN infrastructures. The Cisco MDS 9020 provides a balance of cost, performance and basic enterprise-class features in a compact 1 rack unit form factor. Layering a requisite set of intelligent features onto a cost-effective, small profile switching platform, the Cisco MDS 9020 meets the cost, performance, ease of management and connectivity requirements of small to medium-scale storage environments.