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Cisco MDS 9706 Director Chassis
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The Cisco MDS 9710 chassis can be mounted on a standard 19-inch EIA equipment rack by using the standard
rack-mount hardware, or mounted on a standard two-post Telco rack, with mounting rails.
Cisco MDS 9706 Director Chassis
The Cisco MDS 9706 Director (DS-C9706) is a six-slot chassis with one or two supervisor modules, and up
to four I/O modules. The chassis holds up to six crossbar fabric switching modules, up to four AC or DC
3-kW power supplies and three fan modules. Airflow is front-to-back (port-side intake) in the Cisco MDS
9706 chassis.
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The following figure shows the front view of the Cisco MDS 9706 chassis.
Cisco MDS 9700 Series Switches Hardware Installation Guide
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The base configuration of MDS 9706 (DS-C9706-1K9) ships with two supervisor modules (DS-X97-SF4-K9),
three crossbar fabric switching modules (DS-X9718-FAB3), and four power supplies.
Fan modules - (Three fan modules) 1-3 are numbered left to the
right. When the fan modules are installed, they cover the crossbar
fabric switching modules.
Only two fan modules are shown in the figure. One fan module
is removed to show the crossbar fabric switching module in back.
Crossbar fabric switching modules - (up to six crossbar fabric
switching modules with two modules behind each fan module).
The crossbar fabric switching modules 1 and 2 are behind the fan
module 1, fabric modules 3 and 4 are behind the fan module 2,
and fabric modules 5 and 6 are behind the fan module 3.
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Crossbar fabric switching modules and fan LEDs
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