BLADE OS™ Application Guide HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem Version 5.1 Advanced Functionality Software

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Part 3: High Availability
Fundamentals
Internet traffic consists of myriad services and applications which use the Internet Protocol (IP) for
data delivery. However, IP is not optimized for all the various applications. High Availability goes
beyond IP and makes intelligent switching decisions to provide redundant network configurations.