The Lippis Report

Adding new applications in a data center has become highly complex thanks to routing paths set-up to provide connectivity/reach of Layer 4-7 network services and their associated configuration and policy set-up for specific applications. Then, once the application is operational it’s hard to virtualize it and move it via v-motion while keeping set-up and policies intact especially routing paths. This is a difficult problem riddled with complexity and associated cross-administrative operational cost limiting the number of applications that can be virtualized. A fundamental new approach to networking is needed to solve this and Cisco has been thinking about it for some time now. In this Lippis Report podcast I talk with Gary Kinghorn Product Marketing Manager Data Center Solutions Marketing at Cisco Systems as we discuss Cisco’s Unified Network Services strategy.

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An Industry Network Performance and Power Consumption Evaluation of 10 GbE Data Center Fabric Switches

Testing week was December 6-10th. Since then we’ve been analyzing data, graphing and writing the report in an effort to bring you the results. Mark your calendar for February 1, 2011, at high noon ET, but register here http://bit.ly/ibQ9vW now to view the test results in live HD video streamed over the internet. Register now to see Nick Lippis present the results of the industry’s first open Network Performance and Power Consumption Evaluation of 10 GbE Data Center Fabric Switches. You don’t want to buy data center switching equipment until you have seen the results.

Included in the presentation are Lippis Report test data from the Ixia iSimCity lab in Santa Clara, CA, on the following products:

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 10K
Arista 7504 Series Data Center Switch
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124
IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264
Force10 S-Series S4810
Hitachi Cable Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR
Juniper Network EX Series EX8216 Ethernet Switch
Voltaire® Vantage 6048

This is the first time these products have been tested in a public evaluation. It is our hope that we can remove performance, power consumption and latency concerns from the purchase decision, allowing IT business leaders to focus on other purchase considerations in their data center switching procurements.

See you there, Nick

Hitachi Cable’s brings its first ever-public tested Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR 10GbE switch to the Lippis/Ixia test at iSimCity were we test all 64 10GbE links for performance and power consumption. The Apresia 15000 series was developed under the new BoxCore concept for improving network efficiency by using box switches as Core switches to fulfill customers’ satisfaction. Nick Lippis interviews Junpei Watanabe, Manager Marketing and Business Development for Hitachi Cable on data center switching and cloud network design with Hitachi Cable’s Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR 10GbE switch. Go here to download the Lippis/Ixia Test Report of the Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR Switch.

Michael Githens, Lab Program Manager at Ixia and Nick Lippis Industry Analyst/Consultant and publisher of the Lippis Report discuss the Lippis Report Test Methodology used to develop the industry’s Data Center Switching Benchmarks.