The Cisco MDS 9700 series of Multilayer Directors elevate the standard for director-class switches. It allows a deployment of high-performance SANs with low cost of ownership, layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-agnostic switch fabric.
The Cisco MDS 9700 series of Multilayer Directors addresses the stringent requirements of large data-center storage environments - providing high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and transparent integration of new technologies.