Data Center LAN Migration Guide - Juniper Networks
Data Center LAN Migration Guide - Juniper Networks
Data Center LAN Migration Guide - Juniper Networks
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The Case for a High Performing, Simplified Architecture<br />
<strong>Data</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>LAN</strong> <strong>Migration</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
Enhanced, high-performance <strong>LAN</strong> switch technology can help meet these scaling challenges. According to Network World,<br />
“Over the next few years, the old switching equipment needs to be replaced with faster and more flexible switches. This<br />
time, speed needs to be coupled with lower latency, abandoning spanning tree and support for the new storage protocols.<br />
Networking in the data center must evolve to a unified switching fabric.” 2<br />
New switching technology such as that found in <strong>Juniper</strong> <strong>Networks</strong> ® EX Series Ethernet Switches has caught up to<br />
meet or surpass the demands of even the most high-performance enterprise. Due to specially designed applicationspecific<br />
integrated circuits (ASICs) which perform in-device switching functions, enhanced switches now offer high<br />
throughput capacity of more than one terabit per second (Tbps) with numerous GbE and 10GbE ports, vastly improving<br />
performance and reducing the number of uplink connections. Some new switches also provide built-in virtualization<br />
that reduces the number of devices that must be managed, yet can rapidly scale with growth. Providing much greater<br />
performance, enhanced switches also enable the collapsing of unnecessary network tiers—moving towards a new,<br />
simplified network design. Similarly, scalable enhanced security devices can be added to complement such a design,<br />
providing security services throughout the data center <strong>LAN</strong>.<br />
A simplified, two-tier data center <strong>LAN</strong> design can lower costs without compromising performance. Built on highperformance<br />
platforms, a collapsed design requires fewer devices, thereby reducing capital outlay and the operational<br />
costs to manage the data center <strong>LAN</strong>. Having fewer network tiers also decreases latency and increases performance,<br />
enabling wider support of additional cost savings and high bandwidth applications such as unified communications.<br />
Despite having fewer devices, a simplified design still offers high availability (HA) with key devices being deployed in<br />
redundant pairs and dual homed to upstream devices. Additional HA is offered with features like redundant switching<br />
fabrics, dual power supplies, and the other resilient capabilities available in enhanced platforms.<br />
MULTI-TIER LEGACY NETWORK 2-TIER DESIGN<br />
Density<br />
Performance<br />
Reliability<br />
Figure 4: Collapsed network design delivers increased density, performance, and reliability<br />
2Robin Layland/Layland Consulting “10G Ethernet shakes Net Design to the Core/Shift from three- to two-tier architectures accelerating,” Network World<br />
September 14, 2009<br />
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