Networking Equipment

INTRODUCTION

Data centre hardware is all of the physical computing components found inside a data centre facility. Essentially, it describes all of the equipment that’s crucially needed for the location to carry out its core, assigned IT tasks.

Network Equipment is used to combine, split, switch, boost, or direct packets of information along a server or
telecommunications network.

The key components of a data centre is routers, switches, firewalls, storage systems, servers, and application-delivery controllers.

FEATURES

I. Network equipment in the data centre is protected under rigorous physical and logical security controls. Such as, Biometric andfacial recognition systems to able employees to access the network equipment.

II. Data centre provides multiple signal paths and reduces the odds of downtime due to a failure.

III. Power supplies and subsystems, electrical switches, backup generators, and environmental controls protect the data center hardware and keep it up and running.

INFORMATIONS

Different types of equipment and brands can be catered under this networking equipment list of the data centre. The use case vary according to companies and the traffic requirement in different sectors. Each of the datacentre network equipment is designed for that company to cater to their daily activities and usages. The design of these hardware usually needs to first understand the load, the type of features needed, and also the hardware that is feasible in the environment.

  1. Router – Transform your network edge to deliver high performance, highly secure, and reliable services.
    • Small business and medium business – Cisco RV Series and ISR 900 Series
    • Large business – Cisco Core and Edge Router series
  2. Switches – Network Switches are the basic building blocks for every network and SAN switch that connects servers and shared pools of storage devices and is dedicated to moving storage traffic.
    • Small business and medium business – Switches Catalyst 1000
    • Large business and datacentre – Cisco Nexus 7000 and 9000 Series
    • Storage Networking – Cisco MDS 9000 Series
  3. Firewalls – Intelligent control points everywhere, with unified policy and threat visibility.
    • Small business and medium business – Firepower 1000 Series
    • Large business and datacentre – Firepower 2100, 4100, 9300 series
  4. Storage systems – additional storage devices for backup or live drive
    • Cisco UCS $3260 Storage Server – Massive storage capacity, high performance, flexibility, and policy-driven unified storage management