SANbox 9000

Designed to the Core™ for Open Systems 
Finally, there’s a new class of core switch that represents a sane alternative to quarter million dollar Director switches. The SANbox 9000 series is Designed to the Core™ for cost sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require an ultra-high density, blazing performance, 99.999% availability, intelligent, switch platform for their data center core. SANbox 9000 series represents a number of industry firsts: a stackable chassis module for simple, cost-effective scalability, a 4U chassis module for smaller footprint, the simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) and a comprehensive set of Director-class software management tools included as standard. Best of all, pricing starts at under $100K.

The highly scalable SANbox 9000 is a stackable chassis switch with a dedicated 800Gb/s HyperStack™ connection between as many as two chassis modules. The high port count SANbox 9000 supports up to 256 ports in a dual chassis configuration. he intelligent SANbox 9000 offers in one chassis module: 8 slots for any mix of 4Gb or 10Gb Fibre Channel I/O Blades, iSCSI/FCIP Intelligent Storage Router I/O Blade, or Storage Services Platform (SSP) Blades. For high availability, the SANbox 9000 features redundant, hot-swap I/O, SSP, CPU, Power Supply and Fan blades. And for comprehensive fabric management, the SANbox 9000 includes a powerful and easy-to-use suite of software tools for setting-up, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting and servicing an unlimited number of large fabrics.