Used Refurbished Cisco DS-C9706 Cisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director

Essential Technologies is your essential source for new, used, and refurbished Cisco MDS C9706 Fibre Channel Directors. Whether it's a complete system or blade, upgrades, components, or parts, you can count on Essential to provide quality equipment that meets your IT objectives - and exceeds your expectations - every time.

All products are 100% Cisco original, tested, and eligible for SmartNet or 3rd-party maintenance agreements. Whether you have a specific system in mind, or if you need alternatives, we have the solution that's right for you.

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Refurbished Cisco DS-C9706 MDS 9706 Multilayer Fibre Channel Director

  • Provides up to 192 16-Gbps Fibre Channel autosensing (2/4/8-Gbps, 4/8/16-Gbps) or 10-Gbps FCoE ports (or 96 40-Gbps FCoE ports) per chassis
  • 1.5 Tbps of front-panel Fibre Channel throughput between modules, and up to 12 terabits per second of fibre channel bandwidth
  • Includes four MDS 9706 payload slots
  • Redundancy provided with the power supply and redundant supervisors
  • Integrated VSAN and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) that allows any port to be partitioned to any VSAN
  • Includes network management through a command-line interface, or Cisco DCNM
  • Integrates Fibre Channel, FCoE, and FICON
  • Cisco NX-OS provides VSANs, QoS policies, access control, performance monitoring, and data protection
  • Cisco Model Number: DS-C9706
  • Our refurbished DS-C9706 directors are tested, configured, and may be eligible for SMARTnet

Blade Options

DS-X9448-768K9 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
DS-X9848-480K9 48-Port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Module