Voltaire, a provider of scale-out data centre fabrics, has introduced a Layer 2/3 top-of-rack switch that features 48 ports of 10GbE line rate connectivity in a 1U device.
The company said that the Vantage 6048 switch provides non-blocking switching throughput of 960 Gbps and CEE-compliant features, including Congestion Notification (IEEE 802.1Qau).
The combination of the Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switches and new Vantage 6048 switches enables customers to build flat data centre fabrics of more than 3,400 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with non-blocking, lossless switch fabric capacity of 69.12 Terabits per second.
Voltaire said that its Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software orchestrates the fabric as a single logical switch, enforcing fabric-wide service policies, providing real-time fabric flow level monitoring, and simplifying fabric administration across many physical and virtual switching elements.
UFM software enables VM connectivity mobility without any human intervention in the fabric networking configuration.
Voltaire vice president of marketing Asaf Somekh said that using the Vantage 6048 switch in combination with Voltaire UFM software, businesses relying on cloud architectures can attain a standard-based, modular infrastructure that can scale linearly from a single server rack to 100s of racks with the same hardware and software building blocks.
