The flexibility of the Cisco MDS 9124 is provided by the Cisco MDS 9124 On-Demand Port Activation licenses, which allow expansion in 8-port increments. Customers can start with a base configuration of 8 ports and can upgrade onsite to 16 and 24 ports using these licenses. With advanced storage networking capabilities built into the platform, it is an ideal choice both as a standalone departmental SAN switch and as an edge switch in enterprise core-edge SANs.