Auto-sensing 1 / 2-Gbps interfaces: Provide high performance connectivity and compatibility with legacy devices.
Industry’s highest performance Inter Switch Links (ISLs): Supports up to sixteen 2-Gbps links in a single PortChannel?links may span any port on any module within a chassis for added scalability and resilience.
Intelligent network services: Introduces Virtual SAN (VSAN) technology for hardware-enforced, isolated environments within a single physical fabric; Access Control Lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing; and advanced traffic management features such as Forward Congestion Control (FCC) and fabric-wide QoS to enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise-wide storage networks.
Sophisticated diagnostics: Provides intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding and network analysis tools as well as integrated Call Home capability for added reliability, faster problem resolution, and reduced service costs.
High port density and configuration flexibility: Provides 16-port and 32-port configurations to optimize performance, flexibility and density; supports up to 256 Fibre Channel ports per chassis and 768 ports per rack.