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MDS SSN 16 Video Data Sheet CIS-96515

Video Data Sheet

Learn more about Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node. (4:41 min)

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The Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node (SSN-16) hosts four independent service engines. Each of them can be activated individually and incrementally to scale as business requirements change, or they can be configured to run separate applications.

Based on the single service engine in the Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module, this four-to-one consolidation delivers dramatic hardware savings and frees valuable slots in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors chassis.

Supported applications include:

• Remote SAN Extension with high-performance Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
• Metro area network (MAN) link optimization with Cisco I/O Accelerator (IOA)
• Encryption of storage at rest with Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME)
• Erasing of data located on logical unit numbers (LUNs) with Cisco Secure Erase