Panduit Provides Expertise in Network Infrastructure Topology
10 July 2008
London, UK – Panduit™, a leading, world-class developer and provider of innovative physical infrastructure solutions has collaborated with Cisco in the area of integrated network infrastructure topology for the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series of switches. Panduit has also developed a comprehensive Nexus 5000 cabinet kit that enhances interoperability, reduces installation time, and supports the performance needs of data centre unified fabrics.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 switch series provides an innovative architecture to simplify data centre transformation by consolidating LAN and SAN traffic on a unified fabric.
"It takes a broad ecosystem of leading vendors to help create a data centre unified fabric based on the Cisco Nexus 5000 series," said Soni Jiandani, vice president of marketing at Nuova Systems, a majority-owned subsidiary of Cisco. "Companies such as Panduit provide expertise in the critical areas of logical topology and physical infrastructure to help ensure that IT organisations experience successful deployments."
As part of the Nexus 5000 series ecosystem, Panduit helps enable customers to consolidate and virtualise their data centre environment utilising 10GB Ethernet technologies. Additionally, Panduit and Cisco collaborated to create guidelines for high-performance, flexible, scalable and reliable data centre design that incorporates both Cisco network and Panduit physical infrastructure best practices.
"Our customers are looking for solutions that address total cost of ownership today while providing a solid foundation to adapt to future applications," said Ron Partridge, group VP, global marketing and sales, Panduit. "Panduit continues to collaborate with Cisco to provide integrated network infrastructure topology solutions to optimise data centre effectiveness."
