Data Centre Networking

 

In today’s network, data center networking helps organisations optimise operational and capital costs and respond to business requirements. To optimise costs, organisations must increase utilisation of their IT assets, maintain operational simplicity, and provide a solid business case and ROI for network investment. When done right data centre networking enables the ability to respond to business requirements and ensures business continuity, maintains security and regulatory compliance, supports rapid application and service deployment, and supports user and application mobility.

CCS has solid partnerships with the industry leaders in data center networking and has made large investment in its networking consultants.  Today CCS has delivered several data centre solutions in Bermuda, through the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

 

CISCO NEXUS

The Cisco Nexus family of switches is a primary part of the unified fabric pillar of the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework. These switches are designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following advantages:

• Infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency

• Transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can handle architectural changes such as virtualisation, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing

• Operational continuity to meet your need for an environment where system availability is assumed and maintenance windows are rare or nonexistent

Portfolio of Data Center Switches

All these switches use NX-OS Software, an operating system designed specifically for the data center and engineered for high availability, scalability, and flexibility.

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Modular switches with zero service loss architecture meet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs and future unified fabric requirements.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches

Rack switches deliver high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switches

High-performance, extremely low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) blade switches for x-86 based blade servers.

 

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders

Innovative platform provides a cost effective migration path from Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet while reducing TCO with simplified management and reduced cabling cost.

Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

This software switch integrates directly with the server hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.

Cisco Data Center Network Manager

Simplify operations of highly virtualised and unified next-generation networks with Cisco Data Center Network Manager, and increase uptime in your data center infrastructure.

CISCO CATALYST

Cisco Catalyst 6509 Enhanced Vertical Switch

The 9-slot Cisco Catalyst 6509 Enhanced Vertical Switch (6509-V-E) provides capabilities to support system bandwidth capacity (80 Gbps per slot) up to 1440 Gbps and enhanced cable management capabilities. It also provides front-to-back airflow that is optimised for hot and cold aisle designs in collocated data center and service provider deployments and is compliant with Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS) deployments.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 E-Series chassis offer exceptional investment protection by supporting multiple generations of products on the same chassis, thereby reducing total ownership costs. The Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E chassis supports both the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 and Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 family, along with associated LAN, WAN, and services modules.

Important Features

The Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E supports all Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series modules, including:

• All Supervisor Engines 720 and 32

• 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules

• Gigabit Ethernet modules

• 10/100/1000 Ethernet modules (with optional IEEE 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet [PoE])

• Fast Ethernet modules (with optional IEEE 802.3af PoE)

• Flex WAN modules

• Shared Port Adaptors/SPA Interface Processors

• Multi-Gigabit services modules (Application Control Engine, Firewall, Intrusion detection, IP Security [IPsec], network analysis, and Wireless)

The Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E also supports the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440 when used with the Virtual Switching Supervisor 720-10G.

In addition to providing maximum uptime with redundancy and rapid (1- to 3-second) stateful failover across supervisor engines, the Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E supports modular Cisco IOS Software. This helps minimise unplanned downtime through self-healing processes and simplifies software changes through subsystem in-service software upgrades.

Catalyst 4900M

The Catalyst 4900M provides an ideal solution for space constrained deployments that require high performance wire speed services, high availability, and the modular flexibility of deploying Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, all in a small 2RU form factor.

As part of the Data Center switching portfolio, the 4900M provides:

• High performance

• Low latency

• 10/100/1000 Ethernet

• 10 Gigabit Ethernet

• A top-of-rack access layer switching solution for rack-optimised servers

The Catalyst 4900M offers eight fixed wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and two half-slots which you can fill with any combination of the following:

• 20-port wire-speed 10/100/1000 (RJ-45) half-card

• 8-port (2:1) 10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2) half-card (Cisco TwinGig Converter Module compatible)

• 4-port wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2) half-card

• 8-port (2:1) 10GBASE-T half-card

 

CISCO MDS

MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN Switches

The Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN Switches can help lower the total cost of ownership of the most demanding storage environments. By combining a robust and flexible hardware architecture with multiple layers of network and storage-management intelligence, the Cisco MDS 9000 Series helps you build highly available, scalable storage networks with advanced security and unified management.

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