White Paper Abstract:
Between January 2003 and January 2004, Cisco Systems® deployed 25 Cisco® MDS 9000 multilayer director switches in five production data centers (two in San Jose, California, two in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and one in Amsterdam, Netherlands), displacing the traditional storage networking infrastructure. The largest internal storage-area network (SAN) deployment in the company’s history, the Cisco MDS 9000 rollout was the first significant installation of the (then) new Cisco storage networking switches.