Cisco Data Centre Interconnect (DCI)

The Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) framework helps to enable new, value-added use cases and service offerings for your internal and external customers and partners. Connecting data centres facilitates distributed resource pooling and sharing, as well as rapid workload elasticity, and the ability to scale vertically and horizontally based on consumer demand. Additionally, DCI can provide an effective IT framework for business continuity and disaster recovery.

The two main use case areas include:

• Workload mobility

• Business continuity and disaster recovery

LabHat has successfully designed and implemented DCI solutions for Telecommunications and Public Transport. Call us today to see how we can help increase your workload mobility or BCP.

Data Centre Fabric Design

VMDC DCI leverages FabricPath as the Unified Data Centre fabric. FabricPath combines the stability and scalability of routing in Layer 2 (L2), supporting the creation of simple, scalable, and efficient L2 domains that apply to many network scenarios. Because traffic forwarding leverages the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol, rather than Spanning Tree (STP), the bisectional bandwidth of the network is expanded, facilitating data centre-wide workload mobility.