<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Using data center fabrics, technical professionals can transform their data centers to deliver unprecedented levels of scalability and flexibility, while simplifying configuration and reducing cost. <B> <I> <B>Data Center Fabrics: Fundamentals and Design Principles </B> </I> </B>will help network administrators, engineers, and operators use Cisco technologies to efficiently implement this new paradigm, and fulfill its emerging roles and requirements.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Cisco Data Center Technical Marketing Engineers Ron Fuller and Lucien Avramov thoroughly explain the design considerations, architecture, operation, use, and configuration of data center fabrics using the Cisco Nexus platform and family of products. Drawing on their extensive experience in enterprise engagements, they present effective solutions for Virtualized Data Centers, High Performance Computing, Ultra Low Latency environments, and Large Scale Data Centers.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Fuller and Avramov cover every key technology component of a data center fabric solution, including TRILL, FabricPath, VXLAN, and more. In addition to discussing relevant protocols, they address design considerations associated with hardware, topologies, cabling, optics, fast-failover, and scalability. Technical professionals will find invaluable guidance on migrating current Spanning Tree L2 networks to FabricPath/TRILL; ensuring interoperability; and planning for Massively Scalable Data Centers (MSDCs) to support distributed Big Data and other new applications.<BR> </P>