Chapter 7
Corporate and Datacenter Architectures
This chapter covers the following topics related to Objective 1.7 (Explain basic corporate and datacenter network architecture) of the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 certification exam:
Three-tiered
Core
Distribution/aggregation layer
Access/edge
Software-defined networking
Application layer
Control layer
Infrastructure layer
Management plane
Spine and leaf
Software-defined network
Top-of-rack switching
Backbone
Traffic flows
North-South
East-West
Branch office vs. on-premises datacenter vs. colocation
Storage area networks
Connection types
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Fibre Channel
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)
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