Vixel 7100 8-Port Fabric Switch
The Vixel 7100 Fabric Switch supports field proven fabric services or Stealth-3, Vixel's third generation of loop switching technology. The Vixel 7100 supports 8 ports in a 1U form factor. The Vixel 7100 delivers on Vixel's commitment to industry standard hot pluggable GBIC media interface connectors, to provide outstanding flexibility and reliability, unsurpassed performance and exceptional value. The Vixel 7100 supports 100MBps performance on every port and its 32 frame buffers per port provides consistent performance. With auto-sensing, self-configuring ports, the Vixel 7100 can support a variety of clients on every port. Cascading or meshing of switches is simple, which can enable high availability storage area networking (SAN) solutions including support for multiple inter-switch links (ISL's) between switches. Combined with Vixel's industry leading SAN management software, SAN InSite 2000, the Vixel 7100 Fabric Switch is the ideal building block for your storage area networking needs.
The Vixel 7100 Fabric Switch is the ideal complement to Vixel's market leading hubs and fabric switches. With the growing size and complexity of Unix and NT clusters, the port count of the Vixel 7100 8-port Fabric Switch enables smooth expansion without sacrificing control, ports or performance. Dedicated bandwidth and port isolation provide central SAN connectivity. Vixel's proven track record in fabric and private loop switching ensures interoperability in multivendor environments. The Vixel 7100's ability to interoperate with fabric and enterprise switches from multiple vendors' results in the market's most cost-effective pay-as-you-grow SAN solution. In fact, preserving SAN investment is an essential design criterion of Vixel's 7000 series switches.
The outstanding functionality and flexibility of the Vixel 7100 provides unifying SAN connectivity. Applications such as server clustering, ISP and e-commerce, high-speed video streaming, enterprise and NAS tape backup, and disaster recovery will benefit from the extended performance, isolation and distance capabilities of the Vixel 7100. Customers can enjoy the benefits of fabric or loop switching at a cost well below competitor's switches. The high-density packaging of the Vixel 7100 means that full redundancy can be accomplished without sacrificing valuable rack space.
Features
• 1U form factor reduces valuable rack space requirements, particularly for redundant systems
• Eight full-speed Fibre Channel GBIC ports provide maximum scalability
• 32 frame buffers per port deliver maximum performance under heavy traffic loads and provides optimized support for long links
• Field proven Fabric Services
• Superior third generation Stealth-3 Loop Support Technology
• Auto-sensing, self-configuring ports
• Scalability & reliability supporting high availability fabric meshing
• Flexible zoning support
• Industries most advanced management support with Vixel's SAN InSite 2000™
• 3 Year return to factory warranty
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