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Lossless Ethernet Fabric

Lossless Ethernet fabric is a data center network architecture that uses Ethernet extensions for congestion management and flow control to avoid frame loss for selected traffic classes, supporting converged storage, RDMA, and latency-sensitive workloads on an Ethernet-based infrastructure.

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The check	What the record shows	Where it is in the data
It's a known term	One entry, with its type (topic)	`name`
It sits in a glossary	Linked to Latency-Optimized Fabric, Ethernet Fabric, Low Latency Fabric, Unified Fabric	`inDefinedTermSet`

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