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DCI – SAN Interconnect

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SAN Interconnect Drivers

Pervasive Virtualization, VM MobilityAgile enterprise business for dynamic needsDisaster recovery and Recourse utilization

Risk MitigationBusiness Continuance: 24*7 operationsData Availability : Any time, Any Place, Any Device

Regulation and ComplianceAdhere to International regulationsSafe Guard Customer info

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Cisco (MDS + Optical + IP) AdvantageLower CapEx and OpEx

Integrated Optics – 50% cost reductionTechnology Agnostic – IP, DWDM, SONET

Highly ManageableCommon Management InfrastructureConverged SAN and LAN Interconnect

High Availability, Scalability and ServiceabilityEnhanced Trouble shooting techniquesBandwidth on demand for rapid service creations D

WD

M I/

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MDS ROADM

DWDM SFP

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MDS 9000 FeaturesConsolidation and Security ( VSAN and IVR, Cisco TrustSec Fiber Channel)High Availability ( Port tracking, end to end tracking and monitoring, Port Channeling, Compression, Encryption, Read and write acceleration)Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (Technology Agnostic, Investment Protection)

Complexity, Cost, Power Efficient, Simpler Operations

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CiscoONS 15454

Cisco MDS 9500Multilayer Director

with VSANs enabled

Metro DWDMCisco

ONS 15454

Cisco Advantage – Consolidation and Security Virtual SANs(VSANs)

Cisco MDS 9000 Family VSAN Feature enables consolidation of services onto fewer wavelengths—great for leased lambda scenarios

Strict isolation still maintained to isolate connections—separate traffic accounting

DWDM Architecture used for transport resiliency and scale

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SummaryAll DCI implementations can benefit from Cisco’s combination of SAN, LAN and Transport technologies

New capabilities in MDS 9000 family to extend DC implementations beyond typical SAN extension limits

Back-End Application Servers

MDS 9500with Fabric Services

Enterprise Class Storage

GSS

Primary Data Center

Front-EndServers

GSS

Remote Data Center

IP/ Metro E

SONET/SDH

DWDM/CWDM

CiscoNexus / Catalyst

Ethernet Switching Cisco ONS

15454 Optical transport