Scalability and Growth
Scalability is defined as the capability to grow the environment based on changing needs. Unified Fabric is often characterized as having a multidimensional scalability, where individual device performance, as well as the overall fabric and system scalability, is achieved without compromising manageability and cost. Scalability parameters can also stretch beyond the boundary of a single data center, allowing a true geographic span.
Unified Fabric leveraging connectivity speeds of 10G, 40G, and 100G offers substantially higher useable bandwidth for the server and storage connectivity, which contributes to fewer ports, fewer switches, and subsequently fewer network tiers and fewer management points, allowing overall larger ...
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