Functions of Cisco Gigabit Switch Integrated Data Server

Compared with other types of switches, the Cisco Gigabit Switch has more functions, especially the frame-type Cisco Gigabit Switch, which has the function of integrating data servers. For gigabit switches, it can be applied to high-performance network layers. Cisco Gigabit Switches are divided into many types, including frame-type Cisco Gigabit Switches and Cisco Gigabit Switches integrated with data servers.

Frame-type Cisco Gigabit Switch

This type of Cisco Gigabit Switch applies to high-performance backbone networks. The system has many slots and can be used to connect many redundant network interface cards, including the system bus, power supply, and security modules. The entire system can be set to a high-Redundancy System.

It can still provide available network services in the event of uncontrollable disasters or faults. Performance is an important indicator for frame devices, but more importantly, it is the high reliability and availability of the system. The failure rate is usually required to be within an average annual downtime of no more than 5 minutes.

If you connect the stackable Cisco Gigabit Switch in Figure 2 to an exchange backboard with a larger switching capacity switching array chip, coupled with redundant power supply and management module design, it constitutes a core frame-type Cisco Gigabit Switch. High-speed switching Array Chip structure.

Cisco Gigabit Switch Integrated with Data Server

This type of Cisco Gigabit Switch can also be called an application server that integrates a Cisco Gigabit Switch. The blade servers we usually mention belong to this type of product. They are connected through the high-speed data channel to the frame of the blade server, and the frame of the blade server is like a Cisco Gigabit Switch. The switch backplane of the blade server is usually a gigabit level. It allows servers to interconnect at extremely high speed, which makes high-speed and distributed computing possible. These are the development directions of network computing.

Like the frame-type Cisco Gigabit Switch, the blade server's backplane is also a high-speed backplane, which can be seen as a Cisco Gigabit Switch. Figure 4 is an exchange chip that can be used for the blade server backboard. It can also be used for common standalone or stackable Cisco Gigabit Switches.