Scalable Non-Blocking Infrastructure Management: A Comparative Study

Overview

Today's enterprise environments impose demands for a large-scale, highly available, fault tolerant physical layer infrastructure. Typical storage area and data communication network environments, within a single data center or across geographically dispersed sites, can easily require several thousand ports of connectivity. The ability to plan for and build out network infrastructure in such a way that it is cost-effective, scalable, non-blocking, fault tolerant, and can be monitored and managed more effectively, is of great value to businesses. OnPATH Technologies' Universal Connectivity System 2900 (UCS 2900) family of switch products provides a cost-effective solution to automating enterprise connectivity by scaling from a few hundred non-blocking ports to 4096 non-blocking ports and by simplifying overall infrastructure management.