The SANbox 9000 series is designed to the core for cost sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require a ultra-high density, blazing performance, 99.999% availability, intelligent, switch platform for their data center core. SANbox 9000 series represents a number of industry firsts: a stackable chassis for simple, cost-effective scalability, a 4U chassis for smaller footprint, the simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) and a comprehensive set of core switch software management tools included as standard. The highly scalable SANbox 9000 is a stackable chassis switch with a dedicated 800Gb/s HyperStack connection between as many as two chassis modules. The high port count SANbox 9000 supports up to 256 ports in a dual chassis configuration. The intelligent SANbox 9000 offers in one chassis module: 8 slots for any mix of 4Gb or 10Gb Fiber Channel I/O Blades, iSCSI Intelligent Storage Router" I/O Blades, FCIP Intelligent Storage Router I/O Blades, or Storage Services Platform (SSP) Blades. For high availability, the SANbox 9000 features redundant, hot-swap I/O, SSP, CPU, Power Supply and Fan blades. And for comprehensive fabric management, the SANbox 9000 includes a powerful and easy-to-use suite of software tools for setting-up, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting and servicing an unlimited number of large fabrics.