Compounds. There are more carbon compounds than there are compounds of all other elements combined. The study of carbon compounds, both natural and synthetic, is called organic chemistry. Plastics, foods, textiles, and many other common substances contain carbon.
backplane is the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch switch fabric is also the shared capacity between interfaces on a switch and can also be the shared capacity between interfaces on multiple switches using some sort of interconnect, typically vendor specific.
Brocade Ethernet Switches. Software-defined networking (SDN) is an umbrella term encompassing several kinds of network technology aimed at making the network as agile and flexible as the virtualized server and storage infrastructure of the modern data center.