Extreme NX with the latest modular Ethernet switch Blackdiamond X8 debut in China

C114 News February 29 (Li Ming) cloud computing is the core of the fourth information technology revolution, and the next 3-5 years will be the focus of global wrangling. In the three technology areas of cloud computing, smart terminals, broadband networks and data centers are at the heart of the data center. As the basic platform of cloud computing, data center is not only the guarantee of global discourse right in the era of cloud computing, but also the key point of guaranteeing national information security and realizing autonomous controllable.

At present, cloud infrastructure is setting off the upsurge of data center integration, the data center cloud becomes the general trend. So, in the new cloud era, are network devices and architectures ready to support the advent of the cloud computing era?

Recently, Extreme NX (hereinafter referred to as "the extreme into the network") with the latest modular Ethernet Switch Blackdiamond X8 (hereinafter referred to as "BDX-8") debut in China, BDX-8 is also a highly-oriented network for the cloud and data center launched a new switch. Marty LANs, senior marketing director of the Network data center business, said he wanted to BDX-8 in high-end data centers with the advantages of performance and scale.

Open Fabric Drives Cloud success

Cloud computing introduces new technologies, such as virtualization, to talk about how next-generation networks support virtualized environments and cloud environments, Marty LANs says, and the industry says the next generation network is fabric, and the polar network defines it as open fabric. In the extreme network view, open fabric network must be flat, now can support 10G, 40G, later can support 100G, but also must be a full mesh road map, must be based on open system standards and so on.

"If Ethernet is open, the Ethernet architecture of the data center can also be open." "Marty LANs emphasizes that openness is the characteristic that the Internet has always followed, and it is also a competitive advantage compared with other network manufacturers."

Marty LANs further explained that the open fabric environment has four important factors: "One is the best pedigree, that is, the hardware must be the same as the best; the other is open standard, can do open interoperability; third, network virtualization, in software must be intelligent Four is an open ecosystem, without an open ecosystem, it is impossible to build a high-end architecture. ”

For data centers, the open fabric architecture of the extreme network is a breakthrough solution that implements an interoperable data center network architecture. At the same time, the Extremexos operating system provides support for software definition networks (SDN) and openflow, helping to reduce the complexity of operations associated with network structures and device configurations.

Push new Ethernet Switch BDX-8 minimum latency of only 2.3 microseconds

Based on the open fabric architecture, the BDX-8 network introduces a new switch for the cloud-and data center. According to Marty LANs, BDX-8 is not the first generation, because the product follows the OS used in the past, so this is the seventh generation of products. Starting last year, BDX-8 started to run business on a number of customers, and BDX-8 has been tested in nine test customers for positive evaluations.

Independent tests conducted by the Research institute Lippis in October 2011 show that the BDX-8 offers a minimum latency of 2.3 microseconds, a maximum density of 768 10G Ethernet ports on One-third racks, and a minimum power consumption of 5.6W per port. By the industry as the fastest Ethernet switch.

It is understood that the United States pole into the network was founded in 1996, is a can provide Ethernet design, construction and installation of integrated business of the listed companies. At present, the network has more than 6,000 enterprise customers worldwide, including more than 700 data center customers, more than 1000 government clients worldwide, more than 700 education clients worldwide, and 20 of the world's 19 mobile operators are all partners in the network.

Talking about the development of the Chinese market, Li Yu, general manager of the network in China, said that many of the products currently in the network are running in the network equipment of the three major operators. As for the newest product BDX-8, also needs to match with the carrier construction cycle, we have the project to do now, but temporarily cannot disclose the concrete situation.