Enterprise Data Center

New, data-intensive applications, virtualization, and increasing use of computational power are forcing IT teams to rapidly evolve their underlying network infrastructures. Until recently, options for scaling network infrastructure were limited, because of Gigabit Ethernet’s (GE’s) limited scalability and the added latency and complexity of Layer 3 routing. Woven Systems™ now eliminates Ethernet’s scalability limits with a massively scalable 10 GE fabric that delivers high bandwidth and low latency.

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Woven switches can be interconnected to create a scalable Layer 2 multi-path 10 GE fabric. As a result, the resilient mesh structure is not limited by the bandwidth capacity of a single switch. Woven’s vSCALE™ technology with Dynamic Congestion Avoidance optimizes movement of virtual resources, allowing on-the-fly movement with the highest levels of application performance and lowest latency across the fabric. In addition, the Woven technology detects path failures in the network and automatically re-routes data to an alternate path in less than 10 milliseconds, keeping servers and enterprise applications running.

Guaranteed Quality of Service

Meeting service level agreements (SLAs) for end-user applications requires sophisticated quality of service (QoS) capabilities to ensure that bandwidth requirements of higher priority applications are not starved by less important ones across a converged network fabric. Woven Ethernet fabrics provide the ability to guarantee network resources as broadly or narrowly as desired. With Woven, bandwidth can be partitioned to reserve fabric capacity for specific applications — such as online transaction processing or storage back-up — while remaining fabric bandwidth may be shared by less-critical applications.

Operational Simplicity and Lower Cost

Woven solutions enable IT administrators to work with familiar, standard Ethernet technology, eliminating the need for specialized expertise, re-building existing applications, or complex re-routing and re-configuration. At one-third the rack space and one-fifth the power consumption of competing systems, Woven delivers the lowest total cost of ownership.

Now IT managers can simplify system management with the Woven Dashboard. With the ability to monitor average latencies for thousands of network flows, the Dashboard enables IT administrators to monitor overall network health, configurations, virtualized resources, and pinpoint performance bottlenecks in real time.