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ISLTrunking DS 07
ISLTrunking DS 07
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inefficient traffic routing. ISL Trunking can also help simplify fabric design, lower provisioning time, and limit the need for additional ISLs or switches. figure 2. Dynamic Path Selection augments ISL Trunking to route data efficiently between multiple trunk groups.
frame-based trunking ASIC Preserves In-order Delivery 4G 3G up to 68 gbit/sec 0.5 G 2G 4G 1G dynamic Path selection (dPs) Balancing data flow between multiple trunk groups Trunk group
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ISL Trunking improves on this concept by helping to prevent the loss of the route. A link failure merely reduces the available bandwidth of the logical ISL trunk. In other words, a failure does not completely break the pipe, but simply makes the pipe thinner. As a result, data traffic is much less likely to be affected by link failures and the bandwidth automatically increases when the link is repaired.
automatIc confIguratIon
As with all Brocade optional software products, the license for ISL Trunking can be factoryinstalled or added later. No software installation is required. ISL Trunking is automatically invoked when ISLs are added between any two Brocade 4 or 8 Gbit/sec solutions. Brocade 4 and 8 Gbit/sec solutions can also form trunks to previous-generation products with the individual links operating at 2 Gbit/sec for full backwards compatibility.
hIgher aVaILabILItY
The failure of a link in a route causes the network to reroute any traffic that was using that particular linkas long as an alternate path is available. Brocade Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) is a highly efficient routing algorithm that reroutes around failed links in less than a second.
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