The Cisco MDS 9134 Fabric Switch offers Fibre Channel Storage switching that delivers advanced storage networking capabilities with "pay as you grow" port activation features and starts at 24 ports. This switch is designed for midrange to large enterprise customers, provides line-rate 4Gbps and 10Gbps ports designed to support high-performance, high-density, enterprise-class availability. The switch offers value by providing flexibility, high availability, security, and ease of use at an affordable price in a compact one rack-unit (1RU) form factor or 2 rack units (2RU) for 48 and 64 port stacked solutions. With the flexibility to optionally expand from 24 to 32 ports in 8-port increments or to activate the two, 10Gbps ports for higher performance, the Cisco MDS 9134 fabric switch is designed to offer the port and rack densities required for a top-of-rack switch in the datacenter and provides edge connectivity in enterprise SANs.

• Low initial entry price for 24-port base product means that you have the flexibility to configure your MDS 9134 as you need it.

\n• Includes dual power supplies and other hardware and software features for high availability

\n• Easy expansion up to 64 ports by stacking two switches together using built-in 10Gbps ports as an ISL PortChannels/trunk for performance and high availability\n