Cisco offers new scalable data centre fabric

SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco introduced new additions to its data center networking portfolio Tuesday, designed to keep pace with rising Internet traffic volumes, while offering flexibility and scale for physical, virtual or cloud computing environments. The new switching products augment the Cisco Unified Fabric portfolio, which consists of Nexus data centre switches and MDS storage switches that connect servers, data storage, and corporate networks within the data center and cloud. Cisco released second generation capabilities for the Nexus7000 series and Cisco FabricPath support for the Nexus 5500 switch - together they provide data center fabric scalability, supporting over 12,000...