What’s the unique advantage of SAN business against Brocade for the Cisco MDS switch?

You work as a Cisco engineer at YourDomain.com. What’s the unique advantage of SAN business against Brocade for the Cisco MDS switch?

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You work as a Cisco engineer at YourDomain.com. What’s the unique advantage of SAN business against Brocade for the Cisco MDS switch?

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A.
Cisco has been delivering director-class storage switches for longer than Brocade.

B.
The Cisco MDS switch can support Gigabit Ethernet as well as Fibre Channel, while Brocade supports only Fibre Channel.

C.
Cisco has demonstrated excellent investment protection by allowing new generation linecards to work in first generation directors.

D.
The real Cisco competition was McData, until Brocade bought it and tried to make it compatible with their legacy switches, leaving Cisco with the only director-class switches in the industry.



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