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.

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.

ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY AND STACKABLE SCALABILITY

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!
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
Eight I/O Blade slots per chassis module supporting multi-protocol and multi-function technologies including:


4Gb FC I/O Blade: for maximum server and storage connectivity.
10Gb FC I/O Blade: high-speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) including trunking between other Core, Distribution and Edge class switches.
Intelligent Storage Router Blade: iSCSI for connecting low cost servers and FCIP for replicating data across a WAN
Storage services Platform “SSP” Blade: pool heterogeneous storage
Broadly deployable in local, campus, distributed and remote Core/Distribution/Edge configuration topologies.
ENTRY Model SB9100 fully upgradeable in the field to single or dual HyperStack BASE Model SB9200.
BLAZING PERFORMANCE

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.


Industry’s lowest latency and “No-Wait” routing for maximum transaction performance via powerful embedded CPU and I/O ASICs.
CUSTOMER REPLACEABLE UNITS (CRUs)

The industry’s first stackable chassis switch designed for the convenience, simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) for key components.
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

Architected for long-term investment flexibility and protection to deliver a previously unachievable reduction in total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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.
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.