the procurve 8100fl switch interconnect fabric provides a highly available, high performance, forwarding fabric for interconnecting intelligent edge devices. the procurve switch 8100fl series provides an alternative to traditional core routing switches by combining low cost and complexity with high availability, resiliency, and forwarding capacity.

   

    the 8100fl architecture is designed for ultra-high availability and resiliency within a single chassis, with attributes such as redundant management,redundant switch fabric, graceful degradation, and features such as spanning tree, vrrp, and ospf.