Product Description
- The Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric Series is an application that uses hyperscale concepts of scalability, openness and agility to deliver intent-based networking based on SDN controls. By using HPE Altoline open networking switches and 3rd party software, customers may realize up to 50% TCO over legacy networks. Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric Series delivers zero-touch operations, network automation and deep visibility for data center fabrics and cloud-native applications. Supports physical and virtual workloads and choice of orchestration tools. It provides Layer 2 (L2) switching, L3 routing, and L4-7 service insertion and chaining. The scalable fabric is fully resilient with no single point of failure and supports headless mode operations.
Features
- The Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric Series delivers deployment flexibility for scaleout networks by utilizing open networking hardware and software that meet your business needs.
- Enables agility with automation and rapid deployment with zero-touch provisioning that speeds up your time to service and enhances availability.
- Adds intelligence to the network with single logical view and fabric-wide telemetry that enhances operating efficiency and simplifies management and operations.
- Better network flows visibility and troubleshooting with built-in analytics and historical replay, leaf--spine--leaf fabric tracing for rapid troubleshooting, end-point visibility at the virtual machine (VM) level.
- Inceased innovation velocity for faster time to service enablement with rapid hitless software upgrade that allows rapid consumption of new features.
- Added agility of network automation with VMware vSphere and OpenStack integration, REST APIs for optional NetOps/DevOps automation.
- The Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric Series utilizes HPE Altoline open networking for reliable and easy to deploy scalable fabrics for cloud, Big Data, virtualized and traditional data centers.
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Specifications
| Spec | Description |
|---|---|
| QuickSpecs | https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=a00018426enw; https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/gethtml.aspx?docname=a00018426enw |
| Quickspec Date | 3 |
| QuickSpecs Date | 09/06/2028 12:00:00 AM; 09/04/2017 12:00:00 AM |
| Differentiator | Electronic license to enable installation of Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric into a VM environment. |
| Management features | Fabric management through GUI, CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management, REST API support Switch management using 10/100/1000Mbps management through controller |
| Throughput | Depends on configuration, model, and operation |
