The document describes how Cisco has designed the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches as both high-bandwidth, low-latency, access-layer
switches for rack deployment and as the basis for a unified network fabric that can help simplify data center infrastructure
while reducing capital and operational costs.
Unified Data Center Fabric whitepaper to understand how Unified Fabric reduces costs and improves the alignment of data center
assets to business requirements.
Brocade automated and simplified SAN provisioning feature provide a secure, low-latency, and high-performance infrastructure
for mission-critical applications.
Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter I/O Virtualization and Virtual Switching to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate IT resources
to increase business agility.
Hitachi reference architecture guide to provide information regarding the benefits for selecting Hitachi Data Systems solutions
for video surveillance.
With Virtual Fabrics customers can partition a physical switch into multiple Logical Switches. Each Logical Switch belongs
to a Logical Fabric, which has independent data paths, fabric configuration and management.