FabricPath
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FabricPath is Cisco's proprietary Layer 2 multipath technology that combines the scalability and resilience of Layer 3 routing with the simplicity of Ethernet switching for modern data center networks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FabricPath canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7869923 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: FabricPath Context triple: [Cisco NX-OS, supportsFeature, FabricPath]
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Patchway
Patchway is a suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, situated near Bristol and known for its post-war housing estates and proximity to major transport links.
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B.
Flos
Flos is an Italian lighting company renowned for its innovative, design-led lamps and fixtures created in collaboration with prominent designers.
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Grove
Grove is a surname most prominently associated with Andrew S. Grove, the influential engineer and former CEO of Intel who helped shape the modern semiconductor industry.
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D.
Fabro
Fabro is a small Italian town in the Umbria region known for its medieval historic center and hilltop setting.
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E.
FAB
FAB is the acronym for the Brazilian Air Force, the aerial warfare branch of Brazil’s armed forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: FabricPath Target entity description: FabricPath is Cisco's proprietary Layer 2 multipath technology that combines the scalability and resilience of Layer 3 routing with the simplicity of Ethernet switching for modern data center networks.
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A.
Patchway
Patchway is a suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, situated near Bristol and known for its post-war housing estates and proximity to major transport links.
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B.
Flos
Flos is an Italian lighting company renowned for its innovative, design-led lamps and fixtures created in collaboration with prominent designers.
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C.
Grove
Grove is a surname most prominently associated with Andrew S. Grove, the influential engineer and former CEO of Intel who helped shape the modern semiconductor industry.
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D.
Fabro
Fabro is a small Italian town in the Umbria region known for its medieval historic center and hilltop setting.
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E.
FAB
FAB is the acronym for the Brazilian Air Force, the aerial warfare branch of Brazil’s armed forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cisco networking technology
ⓘ
Layer 2 multipath technology ⓘ |
| basedOn | TRILL-like concepts ⓘ |
| combinesWith | Layer 3 routing principles ⓘ |
| competesWith |
SPB (Shortest Path Bridging)
ⓘ
linked to:
Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)
TRILL ⓘ VXLAN-based fabrics ⓘ |
| designedFor | data center networks ⓘ |
| developer | Cisco Systems ⓘ |
| enables |
any-to-any Layer 2 connectivity
ⓘ
east-west traffic optimization ⓘ |
| improves |
Layer 2 scalability
ⓘ
network resiliency ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Cisco NX-OS
ⓘ
linked to:
Cisco NX‑OS
|
| isProprietaryTo | Cisco Systems ⓘ |
| marketedAs | next-generation Layer 2 fabric technology ⓘ |
| networkLayer | Layer 2 ⓘ |
| offers | equal-cost multipath forwarding ⓘ |
| provides | Layer 2 multipathing ⓘ |
| reduces | Spanning Tree Protocol dependence ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Cisco Nexus 5500 Series
ⓘ
linked to:
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series ⓘ
linked to:
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series ⓘ
linked to:
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series ⓘ
linked to:
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus switches ⓘ |
| supports |
ECMP at Layer 2
ⓘ
MAC address scalability ⓘ broadcast traffic ⓘ cloud data centers ⓘ fast convergence ⓘ fault isolation ⓘ incremental fabric expansion ⓘ large Layer 2 domains ⓘ large-scale Ethernet fabrics ⓘ loop-free Layer 2 topology ⓘ multi-path forwarding ⓘ multi-tenant environments ⓘ multicast traffic ⓘ plug-and-play fabric growth ⓘ spine-leaf architectures ⓘ top-of-rack to core fabric designs ⓘ traffic load balancing ⓘ unicast traffic ⓘ vPC+ (virtual PortChannel Plus) ⓘ
linked to:
Virtual PortChannel
virtualized data centers ⓘ |
| uses |
IS-IS control plane
ⓘ
routing control plane ⓘ routing-style shortest path computation ⓘ switching data plane ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: FabricPath Description of subject: FabricPath is Cisco's proprietary Layer 2 multipath technology that combines the scalability and resilience of Layer 3 routing with the simplicity of Ethernet switching for modern data center networks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cisco NX‑OS