Cisco Launches FabricPath Switching System For Scalable Data Center Ethernet Fabrics

Massively scalable data centers have unique requirements such as low latency, high performance, non-stop operation, simplicity of design, workload mobility and storage transport support.  To address these requirements Cisco launched FabricPath, which is a scalable multi-link and multipath technology allowing 2 to 48 Nexus 7000s to be configured in a large, non-blocking Ethernet switch fabric.  This fabric, called a FabricPath Switching System or FSS, eliminates oversubscription and creates a two-tier fabric.   In addition to FabricPath, Cisco launched its F-Series 10GbE module for the Nexus 7000, which offers 32 ports of auto-sensing 1/10GbE targeted at server access, aggregation and FCoE implementations solutions.  Craig Griffin Senior Director of Product Management for Cisco’s Nexus 7000 discusses new Ethernet innovations for the age of massively scalable data centers.   A white paper on the topic is available here: