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Voltaire Vantage 8500: Scaling Out Two-Tier Data Center Networks: Page 2 of 2

The increasing adoption of virtualization is driving the need for new data center network architectures that offer improved I/O bandwidth without adding extra tiers and oversubscription to the network.
Frank Berry
June 10, 2009

What I like about the Vantage 8500 for any large data center environment is simple: It is designed to deliver predictable and consistent 10-Gbps throughput as you scale-out to thousands of ports.

I also like the low latency capability of the Vantage 8500 for high performance business computing: The Vantage 8500 features less than 1 microsecond latency. For a customer building a 1,000-node data center fabric this translates to 10X lower latency than alternative solutions.

The increasing adoption of virtualization is driving the need for new data center network architectures that offer improved I/O bandwidth without adding extra tiers and oversubscription to the network. I expect to see more vendors follow Voltaire with products purpose built for scaling out data center networks.

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