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Cisco provides a range of additional features that are designed to maintain the
integrity of the fabric. For a discussion about some of these ideas, refer to the
article “Security: Beyond Zoning” in the Cisco user’s magazine Packet in the
second quarter 2005 edition. You can find this edition on the Web at:
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns513/c666/cdcc
ont_0900aecd802c2b74.pdf
9.8 Designing for performance
The topics that follow briefly discuss some of the items that you need to consider
when designing for performance.
9.8.1 Hardware selection
At the time of writing, Cisco supports maximum port speeds up to 4 Gbps. Some
disk systems, such as the DS4800, use 4 Gbps connections, ...