1. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 1 111 © 2003 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Presentation_ID Data Center Networking Tom Edsall SVP/CTO DSSG Cisco

2. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 2 Metcalf’s Law: “The ‘Value’ or ‘Power’ of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of nodes on the network”

3. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 3 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco Restricted DC3 Launch/os 850 Terabytes Amount of Data on the WWW that can be searched and indexed…

4. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 4 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco RestrictedDC3 Launch/os 7.4 Petabytes Total Amount of our Storage Provisioned in Cisco’s Data Centers

5. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 5 Networking in the Data Center  Scale Performance Link Speed Protocols Topologies  Improve Efficiency Power Virtualization Application Acceleration

6. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 6 Networking in the Data Center  Security Work higher in stack Encryption Inference  Gather Information What, Where, When, Who

7. © 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cisco ConfidentialPresentation_ID 7 Why Data Center is Good for Research  Lots of Customers  Smaller Sandbox  Lots of experimentation  You have your own already