Figure 5. Traditional deployment and converged fabrics, phase 1
The next phases of deployment will occur as existing data centers are updated or as new ones are
built. Eventually only a single pair of redundant CNAs will be required per server. Separate FC,
10GbE, and IB switches will be replaced by converged network switches (Figure 6).
Figure 6. Converged fabrics deployment, phases 2 and 3
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