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Everything about Virtual Cluster Switching
Layer 2 proprietary Ethernet technology
Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) fabric technology is a Layer 2 proprietary Ethernet technology from Brocade Communications Systems, later acquired by Extreme Networks. It is designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and simplify the network architecture in virtualized data centers. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Virtual Cluster SwitchingA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and ManagementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: VCSN: Virtual Circuit-Switching Network for Flexible and Simple-to-Operate Communication in HPC FPGA ClusterCited 6 times
- Go sideways: Brocade Communications SystemsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Dell PowerConnectA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and ManagementW. Eric Wong · 2013
Neural Information ProcessingTingwen Huang · 2012
ICSSCCET 2017 · 2017
ICICS 2017 · 2017
Data structures & other objects using C++M. Main · 2001
A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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