Learn About Data Center Bridging

Learn About Data Center Bridging
Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a collection of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) enhancements to the IEEE Ethernet standards. When network designers need to transport lossless storage area network (SAN) traffic across Ethernet networks that are designed to drop frames during periods of congestion, they rely on DCB. DCB forces the Ethernet network to play nicely with the storage traffic and give it the lossless treatment it needs, even though the nature of Ethernet networks is to drop frames during periods of congestion, not preserve them.

Steve Levine is a Staff Engineering Technical Writer at Juniper Networks and DCB Diva with more than a quarter century of experience developing technical documentation about networking, semiconductor, computer, and communication technologies.