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: network congestion or downtime during the consolidation process. The datacentre can now house approximately 2,500 servers. The switching infrastructure acts as the core of the entire campus LAN . It has created enough headroom in the network to accommodate the expansion plans of the company. The network switch solution provides Cadence the required amount of endnode connectivity and uplink connectivity (in terms of density and speed) within an optimum number of chassis.

Foundry installed high-density configurations at the centre that suit high capacity server farms and high performance computing environments. The number of servers and compute nodes are driving demand for non-blocking interconnect solutions that can scale beyond 500 GbE ports per system. The company felt rising per rack power consumption due to technological advancements/trends would lead to more complex cooling and electrical requirements. So Cadence has set aside some space for this purpose.

The company plans to add more edge switches to accommodate additional servers due to increased demand for compute capacity. The company also continues to explore the possibility of deploying various server consolidation and virtualisation technologies to further enhance the compute capacity in the same physical space.

The company has already earmarked a space for the next phase of the datacentre that would be able to take care of much higher KW of electrical load per rack without compromising on reliability and uptime.

This would be crucial as blade servers that consume more power per rack and hence require more complex cooling infrastructure, and other similar technologies gain wider acceptance.