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Air Date: May 29, 2008
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Overview:
Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) really the long-awaited breakthrough that will seamlessly integrate your network servers and storage? Or, is it simply the latest industry marketing hype?

Get the answers and expert insights from some of the most distinguished networking engineers in the industry. Find out how and why FCoE is poised to dramatically transform and simplify your data center operations.

See the new Cisco Nexus 5000 data center switch in operation in a true, multi-vendor environment. Discover how its unified fabric operating system running FCoE enables you to connect LAN-based servers with Fibre Channel storage networks, reducing the number of adaptors, cables, and switches by 50 percent, while lowering power and cooling costs by up to 30 percent. Learn how it gives you far greater flexibility without losing the benefit of your previous equipment investments.

This 60-minute video Webcast will reveal:

• Why certain protocols and technologies have flourished while others have floundered.
• Why the FCoE standard is one of the biggest advances in Ethernet technology in more than 15 years
• How FCoE combines the uncompromising performance of Fibre Channel with the low cost and manageability of Ethernet for the best of both worlds
• Advantages of FCoE versus iSCSI and other protocols
• How to deploy the Cisco Nexus 5000 to take advantage of FCoE now while ensuring backwards compatibility with your existing switches and preserving your current data center investments


Show Outline

Segment 1: Evolution of Data Center Design
Part 1 of 4: Robb and Jimmy Ray review the myriad changes and various protocols that have crept their way into today’s data center environment so we can fully appreciate what 10G Ethernet will enable us to do now.

Segment 2: Defining Data Center Ethernet
Part 2 of 4: Dr. Dante Malagrino joins the TechWiseTV team to dive into the details of Data Center Ethernet. We also get hands on with the new Nexus 5000 and even ‘crack the case’ to see its ground-breaking contents.

Segment 3: Fiber Channel over Ethernet
Part 3 of 4: Silvano Gai, author of Data Center Networks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet joins the TechWiseTV team with his professorial talents and help all of us understand the incredible innovation now available.

Segment 4: Deploying the New Data Center
Part 4 of 4: Join TechWiseTV and guests Garry Lemassa and Satinder Sethi to learn the realities of deploying FCoE in live data center environments. Great multi-vendor demos and designs from the early field trials.

Links:
'Join the Conversation': www.cisco.com/go/datacenterblog
www.cisco.com/go/datacenter
www.cisco.com/go/nexus5000
www.cisco.com/go/nexus
www.cisco.com/go/dce(good info on data center Ethernet)

Special Guests:
Dr. Dante Malagrino, Director, Cisco Data Center Solutions
Dante holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He joined Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA in 1999 as a Software Engineer and his interests were mainly in the areas of high-speed networking and LAN switching. He has participated to the development of the Catalyst 6000 Family of LAN switches.
In 2001, Dante joined Andiamo Systems as Technical Marketing Manager responsible for competitive analysis and interoperability testing with storage partners. In 2002, after the acquisition of Andiamo Systems by Cisco, he became Product Manager for the Cisco MDS 9000 family of intelligent SAN switches.
In June 2004, he relocated to London in the UK to head the Data Center Solutions Marketing team for Cisco Systems in Europe and Emerging Markets. He currently leads the Infrastructure and Architecture teams for the global Data Center Solutions Marketing organization at Cisco. Dante is a recognized expert in the data center and information technology industry and he has been on the Board of Directors for SNIA Europe.

Silvano Gai, Senior Fellow Nuova Systems/Cisco
Silvano Gai, who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has over twenty seven years of experience in computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and technical publications on computer networking and has written multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs. He is responsible for 30 issued patents and 50 patent applications. His background includes seven years as a full professor of Computer Engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy and seven years as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research). For the past eleven years, he has been in Silicon Valley where in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches and the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches. Currently, he is a senior fellow with Nuova Systems where he has been active in defining the new Data Center architecture and in making FCoE a reality.

Satinder Sethi