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Interconnection Network Switch Fabric Architectures
White Papers Paper examines switch fabric architectures available as single chip solutions available on the market. Multistage switching networks are used in high speed communication networks and as building blocks of modern communication systems.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch
White Papers The Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch has 24 Fibre Channel ports with speeds of 4, 2, and 1 Gbps. The Cisco MDS 9124 Switch is based on System-On-a-Chip (SOC), a new technology from Cisco, and it has these features 8 fault licensed ports; 4...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch For HP C-Class BladeSystem Technical Overview
White Papers The Cisco MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem delivers embedded 4-Gb Fibre Channel performance for HP BladeSystem c-Class, allowing customers to consolidate Storage Area Network (SAN) environments with a Fibre Channel switch that...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Choosing An Interconnect Device: Hubs, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Switch, Or Fabric Switch
White Papers It details the capabilities and features of a hub, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop switch, and a fabric switch. This white paper provides information for choosing an interconnect device. This white paper also provides the positioning of each...
[February 9, 2004, 2:56]
Intel IXP2400 Network Processor / Vitesse GigaStream Switch Fabric Solution
White Papers This white paper describes the interconnection between the Intel IXP2400 Network Processor and the Vitesse GigaStream Switch Fabric, and their interoperability through the CSIX-L1 interface to provide a complete network processor and switch fabric...
[June 30, 2008, 0:49]
Intel(R) IXP2400 Network Processor / Vitesse GigaStream* Switch Fabric Solution
White Papers This white paper describes the interconnection between the Intel IXP2400 network processor and the Vitesse GigaStream* Switch Fabric, and their interoperability through the CSIX-L1 interface to provide a complete network processor and switch...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series Interconnect Fabric Technical Brief
White Papers The ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series represents a new class of product - Interconnect Fabric - which enables enterprises to design and interconnect networks based on the ProCurve Networking Adaptive EDGE Architecture.
[October 8, 2007, 16:03]
Cisco Server Fabric Switch InfiniBand Fabric
White Papers Cisco Server Fabric Switches (SFSs) facilitate utility computing by dramatically simplifying the data center architecture, creating a unified, "Wire-once" fabric that aggregates I/O and server resources.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
ViSTA: The Vivace Scaleable Network Architecture - Scaling Multi-Service IP Networks To New Dimensions
White Papers This white paper explores the history of switch fabric designs, summarizes different design approachs and characteristics, and presents the Vivace ViSTA Switch Fabric architecture.
[December 31, 2003, 6:21]
Increasing Intelligence Within The SAN Fabric
White Papers The Brocade Intelligent Fabric Services Architecture enables a wide range of new capabilities for switch-based enterprise SANs. Core Fabric Switch, provides the critical framework for a wide variety of powerful fabric capabilities.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Buffer Requirements Of A Gigabit Ethernet Switch
White Papers Due to the inherent burstiness of "real" traffic, a switch's performance is also measured on its ability to store packets when the switch fabric and/or an output port is temporarily overloaded. This paper seeks to cover these factors by discussing...
[March 23, 2004, 23:04]
Tech Brief Self-configuring Ports
White Papers This document gives an overview on how QLogic's switches automatically sense the attributes of individual end-nodes, configuring themselves in any combination of loop, fabric or switch-to-switch ports as needed.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Using The Cisco SPAN Port For SAN Analysis
White Papers Offered on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Fibre Channel switches and directors, SPAN technology allows users to configure any switch port to mirror data passing through any other switch port, or aggregate of switch ports, within the fabric.
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
Zoning: The Key To Flexible SAN Management
White Papers The key to these highly flexible, manageable SANs is the switch’s capability to create zones, or partitions within the total SAN fabric. Now that the FC-SW- specification is completed and approved, any switch that is fully FC-SW-2 compliant...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Lock Down Your SAN
News This configuration provides tight security, and it scales well in large enterprises with multiple fabric switches and failover switch connections. Using soft zoning or world wide name (WWN) zoning, each element in the fabric receives a WWN for the...
[June 23, 2005, 13:40]
InfiniBand Fabric Topologies
White Papers InfiniBand (IB) is a switched I/O fabric designed for low latency, high bandwidth, and with capabilities that enable very low CPU consumption. HP supports InfiniBand on HP-UX as a High Performance Computing clustering fabric specifically for MPI...
[July 25, 2007, 5:57]
IBM BladeCenter H With Cisco VFrame Software - A Comparison With HP Virtual Connect
White Papers This white paper describes how Cisco VFrame Server Fabric Virtualization Software works with IBM BladeCenter H to provide scalable, policy-based server provisioning and helps to increase automation and flexibility in the data center.
[April 26, 2007, 1:00]
Cisco Reaches High With New Switches
News Along with the new switches, which Cisco claims "represent not just the highest capacity fabric switches but the fastest on the market", the company also announced new software, which Cisco says should improve the performance of Web applications...
[April 4, 2006, 16:45]
Entry SAN Switches: SAN16M-2 Implementation
White Papers This paper details the basic installation and configuration of an entry-level SAN with the IBM TotalStorage SAN16M-2 Express Model fabric switch. In less complex SAN environments, with fewer servers and storage arrays, single switch or dual...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Fully Distributed Switching — A Blueprint For The Future
White Papers Input queuing has hindered QoS guarantees, central switch fabric and control processor cards have wasted precious rack space. The evolution of packet switch architecture has produced a succession of interconnect designs and queuing methods.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
