Other Features for AI-ML Data Centers

You (the network administrator) can use a variety of additional features to customize your data center network for your use cases. Browse these features below.

Table 1: Other Features
Topic	Use Case
Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA) 2.0 Real-Time Flow Monitoring	As the network administrator, you can use this feature to collect data related to the paths the packets take through the network and how long the packets spend at each hop. This data provides an indication of excessive latency and possible congestion.
802.1X Authentication on Layer 2 Interfaces	The IEEE 802.1X standard for port-based network access control (PNAC) provides a mechanism to authenticate users of devices attached to a LAN port.
Optics Pre-FEC BER Rate	Pre-forward error correction (pre-FEC) bit error rate (BER) provides an insight into the link quality.
FEC Histogram and Statistics	You can use forward error correction (FEC) counters and the FEC histogram to forecast the link quality histogram and statistics.