Data Center Fabrics and Application Centric Infrastructure ― Fundamentals and Design Principles

Using data center fabrics, technical professionals can transform their data centers to deliver unprecedented levels of scalability and flexibility, while simplifying configuration and reducing cost. Data Center Fabrics: Fundamentals and Design Principles will help network administrators, engineers, and operators use Cisco technologies to efficiently implement this new paradigm, and fulfill its emerging roles and requirements.

Cisco Data Center Technical Marketing Engineers Ron Fuller and Lucien Avramov thoroughly explain the design considerations, architecture, operation, use, and configuration of data center fabrics using the Cisco Nexus platform and family of products. Drawing on their extensive experience in enterprise engagements, they present effective solutions for Virtualized Data Centers, High Performance Computing, Ultra Low Latency environments, and Large Scale Data Centers.

Fuller and Avramov cover every key technology component of a data center fabric solution, including TRILL, FabricPath, VXLAN, and more. In addition to discussing relevant protocols, they address design considerations associated with hardware, topologies, cabling, optics, fast-failover, and scalability. Technical professionals will find invaluable guidance on migrating current Spanning Tree L2 networks to FabricPath/TRILL; ensuring interoperability; and planning for Massively Scalable Data Centers (MSDCs) to support distributed Big Data and other new applications.

Lucien Avramov , CCIE 19945, is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco. Lucien specializes in the Nexus data center portfolio and the ACI. Lucien designs datacenter networks worldwide and has a wide experience in switch architectures, QoS, ultra-low latency networks, high-performance computing designs, and OpenStack. Lucien is a distinguished Cisco Live speaker and former TAC technical leader, he has several industry certifications, authors RFCs at IETF, and owns an active patent. Lucien holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in General Engineering from Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France. In his spare time, Lucien can be found hiking, biking, running marathons around the world, and on Twitter: @flying91.

Maurizio Portolani , Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems, focuses on the design of data center networks. He coauthoredData Center Fundamentals for Cisco Press, and holds several patents on current data center technologies. He attended the Politecnico of Torino (“Laurea in Ingegneria”) and Ecole Centrale Paris (“Diplome d’Ingenieur”) where he majored in Electronics.