M

Main distribution facility (MDF), 604

Managed device, 531

MDS switches, 421-35

Cisco Fabric Manager, 433

Cisco SAN-OS, 431

command-line interface (CLI), 431-32

hardware, 427-31

MDS 9500 fabric switches, 428-29

MDS 9500 Multilayer Director Switches, 427-28

modules, 429-31

network-attached storage, 433-35

PortChannel, 426

software, 431-33

SPAN, 425

technologies, 421-26

trunking, 425-26

VSAN, 421

Media access control (MAC), 38, 39, 193

Media access unit (MAU), 42

Memory

flash, 117-18

NVRAM, 117, 156, 161, 164, 204

RAM/DRAM, 117

ROM, 118

router, 117-18

static, 117

MIB (management information bases), 533-36, 537-39

MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), 19

Multicast addressing, 82

Multicast distribution tree, 448

Multilayer DataCenter Switches (MDS). See MDS

Multilayer switching, 212-13, 582

Multimedia content, 19

Multiplex, 49

Multipoint control units (MCU), 394-95

Multipoint processors (MP), 394

Multiprotocol Label Switching, 515-18

MVS, 6