Avaya VSP 9000 [EOL] vs Cisco FabricPath comparison

Deploy the Mission-Ready Solution for Your Mission-Critical Network Core

• Improve the resiliency and stability of your network with this ultra-reliable and high-performance Core Switch platform.
• Protect your enterprise from network outages when you deploy the Virtual Services Platform 9000, with its hardened architecture and instantaneous recovery.
• Reliably support your most mission-critical communication environments with a carrier-grade operating system, system-level health checks, and self-healing capabilities, coupled with seamless software patching.
• Reduce time to service and enhance your service agility by leveraging Avaya Fabric Connect technology. Never reconfigure your network core again. Make moves, adds, and changes in real time. Use a simple end-point provisioning model to make services changes easier than ever before.

Cisco FabricPath is a Cisco NX-OS software innovation combining the plug-and-play simplicity of Ethernet with the reliability and scalability of Layer 3 routing. Using FabricPath, you can build highly scalable Layer 2 multipath networks without the Spanning Tree Protocol. Such networks are particularly suitable for large virtualization deployments, private clouds, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The benefits of Cisco FabricPath include: Minimal commands per switch ease configuration and operation, Autodiscovery simplifies addition of new links and switches, Provision additional network bandwidth without impacting network, Supports one-, two-, or three-tier architectures, VLAN extensibility across the data center.