HP Flexnetwork - the path to a unified network architecture
At Interop 2011, which was held in May in Las Vegas, HP presented its strategy for developing the network infrastructure of Flexnetwork enterprises. HP is active in the network equipment market and as a result, its rating has increased significantly. According to a survey of corporate customers, Baird analytical agency, 75% of people surveyed when buying a new network equipment consider HP as a potential supplier, and 29% said they chose HP network products instead of Cisco.
The Flexnetwork architecture spans enterprise data center networks - FlexFabric, enterprise network - FlexCampus, and branch network - Flexbranch, allowing you to build a unified network infrastructure. FlexManagement integrates the components of the Flexnetwork architecture and allows you to manage them from a single console.
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At Interop 2011, HP announced:
New switches HP A-Series 10500 , deliveries of which will begin in the second half of the year.
Switches allow you to build efficient two-tier networks and scale up to 128 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. With the help of the Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology that we recently talked about , the two switches can be combined into a 208-port factory. In the future, HP A10500 switches will support configurations of up to 1,500 ten-gigabit ports using IRF.
The latency of the A10500 does not exceed three milliseconds, and the bandwidth of the backplane of the switch is 11 terabits / sec and 10.9 billion packets / sec. These switches support 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and are ready for use with the Stoggigabit Ethernet. Compared to competitors, they have four times less latency, two and a half times higher performance and 270% higher port density.
New interface modules for the HP E5400zl and E8200zl access level switches are introduced , which also support the two-tier network architecture and reduce the delay to three milliseconds. Using these modules, the switch chassis can be scaled to 288 Gigabit ports, and their power consumption has decreased by more than a third compared to the previously released modules.
Another new HP Networking is the dual-band (a, n) wireless access points E-MSM430 / 460 and E-MSM466. The use of multi-stream I / O (MIMO) technology has provided speeds of up to 900 Mbps. bringing together the characteristics of wireless and wired networks.
The new version of HP Intelligent Management Center 5 is the main FlexManagement tool that, in terms of functionality, can replace 30 separate third-party network administration utilities that will be needed to maintain the data center, campus and branch networks. The new version can manage both physical and virtual networks. The software automatically detects virtual machines and virtual switches and implements "federated" management. HP Intelligent Management Center 5 supports 2600 network devices from 35 manufacturers.
The next version of HP IMC 5.1, which will be released before the end of the year, will automatically synchronize information about network connections of blades based on HP Virtual Connect technology, which automates the creation of server profiles and simplifies the allocation of HP BladeSystem server resources from the cloud.
Do you still prefer Cisco?
The Flexnetwork architecture spans enterprise data center networks - FlexFabric, enterprise network - FlexCampus, and branch network - Flexbranch, allowing you to build a unified network infrastructure. FlexManagement integrates the components of the Flexnetwork architecture and allows you to manage them from a single console.
')
At Interop 2011, HP announced:
New switches HP A-Series 10500 , deliveries of which will begin in the second half of the year.
Switches allow you to build efficient two-tier networks and scale up to 128 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. With the help of the Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology that we recently talked about , the two switches can be combined into a 208-port factory. In the future, HP A10500 switches will support configurations of up to 1,500 ten-gigabit ports using IRF.
The latency of the A10500 does not exceed three milliseconds, and the bandwidth of the backplane of the switch is 11 terabits / sec and 10.9 billion packets / sec. These switches support 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and are ready for use with the Stoggigabit Ethernet. Compared to competitors, they have four times less latency, two and a half times higher performance and 270% higher port density.
New interface modules for the HP E5400zl and E8200zl access level switches are introduced , which also support the two-tier network architecture and reduce the delay to three milliseconds. Using these modules, the switch chassis can be scaled to 288 Gigabit ports, and their power consumption has decreased by more than a third compared to the previously released modules.
Another new HP Networking is the dual-band (a, n) wireless access points E-MSM430 / 460 and E-MSM466. The use of multi-stream I / O (MIMO) technology has provided speeds of up to 900 Mbps. bringing together the characteristics of wireless and wired networks.
The new version of HP Intelligent Management Center 5 is the main FlexManagement tool that, in terms of functionality, can replace 30 separate third-party network administration utilities that will be needed to maintain the data center, campus and branch networks. The new version can manage both physical and virtual networks. The software automatically detects virtual machines and virtual switches and implements "federated" management. HP Intelligent Management Center 5 supports 2600 network devices from 35 manufacturers.
The next version of HP IMC 5.1, which will be released before the end of the year, will automatically synchronize information about network connections of blades based on HP Virtual Connect technology, which automates the creation of server profiles and simplifies the allocation of HP BladeSystem server resources from the cloud.
Do you still prefer Cisco?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/123463/
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