Guest

Data Center Designs: Application Networking

Cisco Partner Application Innovation Center

Accelerate Application Delivery

Build systems to accelerate application delivery and provide application assurance.

Improve Application Delivery and Assurance

June 26, 2010

Located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the Cisco Partner Application Innovation Center Laboratory and Showcase Center uses Cisco TelePresence technology to demonstrate solution capabilities remotely. The laboratory is based on a Cisco Data Center architecture with:

  • Cisco Unified Fabric
  • Cisco Unified Computing
  • Cisco Unified Service

Primary Cisco components include:

  • Cisco Nexus products
  • Cisco Unified Computing System
  • Cisco MDS family of products
  • Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
  • Cisco Application Control Engines
  • Cisco adaptive security appliances

Other important components include storage technology from partners such as EMC and NetApp.

Deploy Validated Designs

Joint solutions for accelerated application delivery and improved assurance are purpose-built by Cisco and technology partners on an end-to-end reference architecture. In creating Cisco Validated Designs, the Cisco Partner Application Innovation Center collaborates with ecosystem partners such as:

  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • SAP
  • VMware
  • EMC
  • NetApp

Design guides recently developed at the Cisco Partner Application Innovation Center include:

Solution Author


Meet all the engineers