Cisco Systems DS-C9148S-K9 Multilayer Fabric Switch

The Cisco DS-C9148S-K9 Multilayer Fabric Switch is a 48-port Fibre Channel switch in the Cisco MDS 9100 Series designed for data center SANs, delivering 48 × 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and supporting 2/4/8/16 Gbps speeds for flexible connectivity. With a switching capacity of up to 768 Gbps and line-rate Fibre Channel forwarding, it provides high-bandwidth, low-latency storage network performance for servers and storage arrays. Managed with Cisco NX-OS, it offers Fibre Channel SFP+ transceiver slots and is rack-mountable for enterprise data centers, storage area networks, and virtualization infrastructures. This switch is commonly deployed to enable scalable SAN connectivity, centralized traffic management, and reliable data access in data centers and virtualization environments. A common replacement in Cisco MDS deployments is the DS-C9396S-K9 MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch.