Switching Designed for Your Data Center
The Cisco Nexus family of data center switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following advantages:
- Infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency
- Transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can handle architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing
- Operational continuity to meet your need for an environment where system availability is assumed and maintenance windows are rare, if not totally extinct
Portfolio of Data Center Switches
All these switches use NX-OS Software, an operating system designed specifically for the data center and engineered for high availability, scalability, and flexibility.
Modular switches with zero service loss architecture meet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs and future unified fabric requirements.
Rack switches deliver high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet (DCE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (Video - 12:06 min).
Innovative platform provides a cost effective migration path from GbE to 10GbE while reducing TCO with simplified management and reduced cabling cost.
This software switch integrates directly with the server hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.
