Data Center Ethernet: Cisco's Innovation for Data Center Networks

Cisco has developed standards-based extensions to Ethernet for data center networks to support new capabilities. This paper talks about Cisco's continuing innovations in Ethernet data center networks to provide support for new application demands. The paper also talks about the Cisco Data Center Ethernet architecture enhancements that improve the robustness of Ethernet and support new concepts such as unified I/O and unified fabrics. It shows where other approaches have fallen short, and how Cisco Data Center Ethernet promises to be the architecture that fulfills the requirements for the next generation of Ethernet networks in the data center.