Brocade has unveiled the industry’s “first true” Ethernet fabric switching solutions that are purpose-built for highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers.
The Brocade VDX 6720 data center switches are a new family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet offerings that ramp up Layer 2 Ethernet networking to create Ethernet fabrics.
The switches eliminate the need for Spanning Tree Protocol, collapsing the access and aggregation networking layers to create a flat, multipath, deterministic network that is ideal for virtualized environments.
This approach provides virtual machines a greater sphere of mobility, increases network utilization, creates more resilient networks and simplifies the management of data center networks.