Specifications

Certified FCIP Vendor Products
58 Continuous Access and Data Replication Manager SAN Extensions Reference Guide
Cisco MDS 14/2-Port Multiprotocol Services Module fact sheet
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc. http://www.cisco.com
Cisco MDS 9000 14/2-Port, 1 GbE Multiprotocol Services
Module (MDS9216i Fibre Channel switch and gateway)
Certified on DRM, Continuous Access
EVA, and Continuous Access XP
Feature Specification
Supported hardware
revision
N/A (depends on MDS switch)
Supported firmware revision Requires MDS 9000 family V2.0(1b) or V2.1(1a) firmware
Product function 1 GbE and FCIP interface to MDS 9216/9216A, MDS 9216i, MDS
9506, and MDS 9509
Fibre Channel speed 1 or 2 Gbps, auto-sensing
Number of FC ports 14
FC buffer-to-buffer credits Up to 3500 credits per port
FC optical interface 1470 nm CWDM FC SFP, also 1490, 1510, 1530, 1550, 1570,
1590, and 1610 SFPs
FC optical connector 1 GbE to 1- or 2-Gb Fibre Channel short wave optical transceiver SFP
(336223-B21) and long wave (336224-B21)
IP interface 1 GbE
IP protocol Fibre Channel protocols (FC-PH, rev 4.3; FC-PH-2, rev 7.4; FC-PH-3,
rev 9.4; FC-GS-2, rev 5.3; FC-GS-3, rev 7.01; FC-FLA, rev 2.7;
FC-FG, rev 3.5; FC-SW-2, rev 5.3; FC-AL, rev 4.5, FC-AL-2, rev 7.0,
FC-PLDA, rev 2.1; FC-VI, rev 1.61; FCP, rev 12; FCP-2 rev 7a;
FC-SB-2, rev 2.1; FC-BB, rev 4.7; FC-FS, rev 1.7; FC-PI, rev 13; FC-MI,
rev 1.99, FC-Tape, rev 1.17)
IP over FC (RFC 2625) Extensive IETF-standards based TCP/IP
SNMPv3 and RMON MIBs Class of Service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F
FC standard port types: E, F, FL
FC enhanced port types: SD, TE, TL
Internet standards (RFC 791 IPv4, RFC 793, 1323 TCP, RFC 894
IP/Ethernet, RFC 1041 IP/802, RFC 792, 950, 1256 ICMP, RFC 1323
TCP performance enhancements, RFC 2338 VRRP)
Number of IP ports 2
IP port load balancing Yes (part of MDS 9000 family)
IP interface Optical
IP connectors N/A (part of MDS 9000 family)