User manual

Customers of all sizes and across a wide range of
industries are choosing to rely on Ethernet networks
to support an ever-broadening range of unified
communication applications and services. Traditionally
deployed to provide strictly desktop client data/
Internet access and “core” data center application
communications, these networks are now being tasked
with providing voice, video, and collaboration services
to the desktop and converged storage networking,
security, and virtualization capabilities to data center
servers. The network has truly become a centralized,
round-the-clock, mission-critical asset—and with that
has come more stringent requirements for availability,
reliability, and security.
At its foundation, an end-to-end access-
layer-to-network-core switch infrastructure must
be reliable and secure in order to provide the
level of availability demanded by today’s highly
converged, unified communications networks.
With more highly reliable switches required
in more places in the network than before,
large enterprise customers have set out to
deploy these types of switches beyond the
network core and aggregation layers. And
midsized customers, who had previously
not considered such highly reliable switch
platforms, are now looking for cost-
effective paths to providing uninterrupted
network access.
HP ProCurve 8200zl Switch Series
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