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Light Chaser Animation Studios has deployed a new high-performance fabric-based network from Brocade to support its animation production business. The new network links storage and computing resources at Light Chaser's data center with artists' workstations at Light Chaser's main office in a seamless Ethernet fabric that delivers the wire-speed, low-latency performance required for 3D animation production.
"The beauty of this design is that it creates a single Ethernet fabric that spans Light Chaser's two sites, delivering high-capacity and low-latency connectivity across its entire IT infrastructure. It is also ridiculously easy to manage since, as a single virtual device, configuration information is shared between all the Brocade VDX switches in the fabric. It is very much a plug-and-play network. When Light Chaser needs more network capacity to support additional servers or workstations, it can simply add another switch into the fabric cluster," said Sam Lo, Regional Director for China, Brocade.
The Brocade solution was a unified Ethernet fabric built around the Brocade VDX family of Ethernet switches. These switches feature Brocade VCS Fabric technology, which has enabled Light Chaser to create a seamless network at its data center and artists' studio that is practically self-managing.
Within the data center, Brocade VDX 6710 Switches have been deployed as top-of-rack (TOR) switches to provide wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity to the 400 multiprocessor, multicore servers that provide the computing power for Light Chaser's video rendering. intercommunication between the render farm servers.
A Brocade VDX 6720 switch also forms part of Light Chaser's data center switching cluster, providing 10 GbE pathways to the server switches and connecting the NAS array into the network over multiple 10 GbE links. It also supports dual 10 GbE links, over fiber-optic connections, to another Brocade VDX 6720 switch that is clustered with several Brocade VDX 6710 switches at the Light Chaser studio site. The latter provides wire-speed GbE connectivity to the animation artists' workstations.
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