Learn more about Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator. (4:49 min)
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Accelerate Traffic and Reduce Response Time
Business continuity and backup require multiple data centers, located far enough apart to protect against regional power failures, data loss, and natural and man-made disasters.
Synchronous remote data replication and remote tape backups are appropriate for data recovery and protection. However, distance and latency between data centers have a negative effect on application performance.
Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) software offers traffic acceleration services that dramatically reduce application response time. It also increases the acceptable distance for synchronous replication and tape backup solutions.
A Wide Range of Continuity Benefits
Cisco MDS 9000 IOA is transport-independent, providing a unified solution to accelerate I/O operations over metropolitan area networks (MANs) and WANs. You can use it as a fabric service, which allows service units (interfaces) to be located anywhere in the fabric to provide acceleration services to any port. Key features are:
Speed independence: accelerates 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, and 10-Gbps links, and consolidate traffic over 8- and 10-Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs)
High availability and fault tolerance: combines port channels, equal-cost multipathing (ECMP), Lightweight Reliable Transport Protocol (LRTP), and service clustering
Transparent insertion: requires no fabric reconfiguration or rewiring, and can be transparently turned on
Easy, intuitive provisioning, using Cisco Fabric Manager
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