Brief

Get ready for a less congested Data Center

IT and data center managers across the region face increasing pressure to meet business demands while managing energy consumption and service costs. Cisco has introduced its Nexus 5000 Series data center switches in India.

This platform provides a framework for a Data Center 3.0 network and defines the operational characteristics of next generation infrastructure.

Speaking about the Nexus 5000 series switches, Malhar Shah, Senior Product Line Manager, Nuova Systems said, “Nexus 5000 switches offer low latency, high density and high performance. With the reduction of cables and costs coming down, they are highly available. Networking is done in three layers—access, aggregation and core.”

Cisco has designed the Nexus 5000 Series Switches as high-bandwidth, low-latency and access-layer switches for rack deployment and as the basis for a unified network fabric that can help simplify data center infrastructure while reducing capital and operational costs. Internally, the switches are based on only two custom application-specific integrated circuits, a unified port controller that handle all packet-processing operations on ingress and egress, and a unified crossbar fabric that schedules and switches packets.

Sumit Mukhija, National Sales Manager, Data Centre, Cisco India & SAARC, said, “The data center is the heart of any organization. It is one place where all the data is stored, managed and disseminated. It consists of the infrastructure layer, network layer, computer storage layer and application layer. Cisco is focusing towards making green data centers not only for customers but for their own IT centers.”

Multi-core computing and virtualization are rapidly changing the data center landscape, furthering the need for high-bandwidth, low-latency switching. These technologies increase efficiency by increasing server utilization, but they also promote an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Most data centers grappling with the bandwidth challenge are migrating to 10 Gigabit Ethernet to alleviate their IP network bottlenecks. In addition, most data centers support dual Fiber Channel links per server to access their storage networks, and some data centers supporting high-performance computing (HPC) environments also support multiple interprocess communication (IPC) networks per server.