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As video-based services and multimedia content expand, the Web is delivering a host of advanced communications, collaboration, sales, and production applications for businesses, as well as new services for consumers. For Internet service providers, this represents a large opportunity, provided their data centers are up for the challenge.
Woven Delivers 10 GE for Internet Data Centers
Woven Systems™ eliminates scalability barriers and minimizes latency with its 10 GE EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch, which is designed to meet the widest range of application requirements. Internet service providers can now scale their existing infrastructures using Ethernet and achieve performance that previously only complex Layer 3 networks could deliver. Woven’s high port, low-latency switch uses an innovative method to build massively scalable multi-path 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) fabrics that simplify Internet data center infrastructures and revolutionize service performance. Plus, Woven’s unique vSCALE™ technology continuously monitors congestion and automatically re-balances traffic to less congested paths without dropping or re-ordering packets, further enhancing performance and throughput.
Resolving Ethernet’s Scalability Challenge
As web-based services proliferate, so do the number of server connections on network switches. This strains network infrastructure and complicates power and cooling requirements. Driven by video applications, the requirement for more Internet bandwidth and 10 GE connections are increasing exponentially. However, scaling beyond the limits imposed by Ethernet Spanning Tree requires Layer 3 routing, which adds a new level of complexity to Internet service providers’ networks.
Woven’s Ethernet fabric switch solutions eliminate Ethernet's traditional scalability limitations, allowing operators to build massively scalable networks. These switches can be interconnected in a multi-path, meshed topology to create 10 GE fabrics that scale to more than 4000 fully non-blocking 10 GE edge ports. As a result, this resilient network structure is not limited by the bandwidth capacity of a single switch, enabling Internet service providers to deploy new services without having to re-engineer their networks.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
As customer and application demands increase, servers will increasingly require 10 GE connectivity. Woven’s 10 GE fabric solutions deliver unsurpassed performance, scalability and manageability using familiar, standards-compliant Ethernet. Woven solutions do not require specialized expertise, re-building existing applications, or complex re-routing and re-configuration. With the highest number of 10 GE ports per chassis at one-third the rack space and one-fifth the power consumption of existing switching solutions, Woven delivers the lowest total cost of ownership.
Deploy New Services Fast
Woven can reduce service deployment schedules by weeks or months, because one Ethernet fabric greatly simplifies launching new applications and services. Applications developed on Ethernet can run on a Woven fabric without having to be re-built. In fact, applications can be built on smaller, less costly systems and moved to a large infrastructure with confidence.
