Delivering High Availability in the Wiring Closet with Cisco© Catalyst© Switches
Jul 30, 2007 by Nathan SwartzBy Cisco Systems
The corporate network is mission critical, especially as Unified Communications such as IP telephony and collaboration are deployed. As part of this deployment IT leaders are taking a new look at the role of the wiring closet in providing the high availability expected from their network investments. The wiring closet was once relegated to an area of the network where corners were cut, since at worst a group of users would lose connectivity to a file server. Not any more. To deliver high availability applications, the wiring closet needs to be designed for high reliability.





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