|
Feature
|
Cisco
|
Competition
|
|
Director supporting more than 200 ports
|
2002
|
2005
|
|
Virtual SANs (VSANs) and ANSI virtual fabrics
|
2002
|
2009
|
|
Secure management through Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3)
|
2002
|
2004
|
|
Quality of Service (QoS)
|
2002
|
2007
|
|
Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)
|
2002
|
No
|
|
Network diagnostics: Ping and Traceroute
|
2002
|
2006
|
|
Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
|
2002
|
2007
|
|
Fabric Analyzer
|
2002
|
No
|
|
Tiered connectivity for network design optimization
|
2002
|
No
|
|
VSAN trunking
|
2002
|
2009
|
|
Centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) services (RADIUS and TACACS)
|
2002
|
2004
|
|
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
|
2002
|
2006
|
|
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for management port redundancy
|
2003
|
No
|
|
Port rate limiting
|
2003
|
2008
|
|
Integrated SAN Routing on every port
|
2003
|
No
|
|
IBM Fiber Connection (FICON) and Open System intermix through VSAN
|
2003
|
2009
|
|
Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence
|
2003
|
No
|
|
Integrated SAN Extension: Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
|
2003
|
2006
|
|
Integrated iSCSI
|
2003
|
2007
|
|
Fibre Channel LUN zoning and read-only zones
|
2003
|
No
|
|
Integrated virtualization
|
2003
|
2007
|
|
Native switch interoperability modes
|
2003
|
2007
|
|
Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) for host-switch and switch-switch authentication
|
2003
|
2006
|
|
Cisco Fabric Services
|
2004
|
No
|
|
Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
|
2004
|
2007
|
|
Hardware-based IP Security (IPsec) encryption for FCIP and iSCSI
|
2004
|
2007
|
|
FCIP hardware compression
|
2004
|
2006
|
|
FCIP Write Acceleration
|
2004
|
2006
|
|
FCIP Tape Acceleration
|
2004
|
2007
|
|
Large pool of extended credits (more than 5800 per port)
|
2004
|
No
|
|
SAN Extension Tuner
|
2004
|
No
|
|
Dynamic Port VSAN Membership (DPVM)
|
2004
|
No
|
|
Embedded Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) agent
|
2004
|
2005
|
|
Distributed device aliases
|
2004
|
No
|
|
Integrated Fibre Channel routing with FCID Network Address Translation (NAT)
|
2005
|
No
|
|
Heterogeneous data protection via SANTap
|
2005
|
2007
|
|
IPv6 support
|
2006
|
2007
|
|
Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
|
2006
|
No
|
|
Intelligent port bandwidth management
|
2006
|
No
|
|
10-Gbps Fibre Channel
|
2006
|
2007
|
|
Director supporting more than 500 ports
|
2006
|
No
|
|
Large-scale support for highly scalable iSCSI service
|
2006
|
No
|
|
4-Gbps Fibre Channel
|
2006
|
2006
|
|
Enhanced inter-data-center routing through Autonomous Fabric ID
|
2006
|
No
|
|
SAN Device Virtualization
|
2007
|
No
|
|
Integrated Storage Media Encryption (SME): encryption of data at rest
|
2007
|
2009
|
|
Integrated Data Mobility Manager (DMM)
|
2007
|
No
|
|
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
|
2007
|
No
|
|
N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
|
2007
|
2007
|
|
Secure Erase: Permanent data erase
|
2008
|
No
|
|
Offline data restore tool
|
2008
|
No
|
|
FlexAttach: simplified server mobility and replacement
|
2008
|
No
|
|
F-port trunking: trunking of multiple VSANs to servers
|
2009
|
No
|
|
Fibre Channel Link Encryption: encryption of data in motion
|
2009
|
No
|
|
8-Gbps Fibre Channel
|
2008
|
2008
|
