Overview: Active Queue Management in Nexus 9000 Data Center Switches

As part of Cisco Next Generation Data Center Innovations series, Tom Edsall explains why smart buffering is more beneficial than deep buffering. He discusses the theory of operation of the Active Fair Discard (AFD), combined with Elephant Traps that make up two of the main pillars of how active queue management, aka Smart Buffers, is done on the Nexus 9000. Learn more about Nexus 9000 data center switches: http://cs.co/9009DQTeb. https://ift.tt/2M4UCwq Cisco August 09, 2018 at 07:59PM