Data Center Fabric
A true data center network fabric interconnects thousands of server, storage and other network ports in a flat, ultra-low latency infrastructure that provides any-to-any connectivity, ensuring that every device is a single hop away from every other device.
Since the fabric functions as a single, logical device, it preserves operational construct, performance and simplicity of a single switch while delivering scalability and resiliency of a data center network. A flat fabric-based network architecture also eliminates need for multiple layers of devices, switch-to-switch interactions, and shared network protocols.
Consequently, a data center network fabric dramatically simplifies network management and operations while improving performance, even if the network scales from tens of ports to thousands of ports. Servers, storage, and other data center devices can be seamlessly added to data center because of the fabric's high degree of scalability.