Do you manage a complex Cisco Unified Communications environment? If you do, then you?re already fully aware of how sensitive real-time traffic, such as voice and video, are to such things as latency, jitter, and packet loss. Now, throw this system into the same infrastructure with the rest of your data, and you don?t always have the best recipe for success. Sure, there are tactics that we implement for Unified Communications, such as dedicated voice VLANs and Quality of Service mechanisms like Low Latency Queuing. However, at the end of the day, all of these packets still have to compete with the many other types of traffic in your datacenter infrastructure; and let?s face it, a simpler architecture is a faster and more easily managed architecture.

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