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By unifying storage, data networking, and network services, Cisco Unified Fabric delivers architectural flexibility and consistent networking across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Cisco Unified Fabric

Unified Fabric is a holistic network architecture comprising switching, security, and services that is designed for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It uniquely integrates with servers, storage, and orchestration platforms for more efficient operations and greater scalability.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance.

Key characteristics of ACI include:

  • Simplified automation by an application-driven policy model
  • Centralized visibility with real-time, application health monitoring
  • Open software flexibility for DevOps teams and ecosystem partner integration
  • Scalable performance and multitenancy in hardware

An ACI-based network is deployed, monitored, and managed in a way that supports DevOps and rapid application change. ACI reduces complexity and offers a common policy framework to automate provisioning and managing of resources.

Application Centric Infrastructure

Application Centric Infrastructure

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  • Cisco Nexus Switches Portfolio

    Cisco Nexus switches are designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center.

    • Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

      • Provide the switching foundation for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
      • Support up to 1.92 terabits switching capacity per slot
      • Deliver high-density 1,10, and 40 Gigabit Ethernet today, and 100 GE in the future
      • Operate in standard Cisco NX-OS as well as in ACI mode
      • Offer full virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) bridging, routing, and gateway support

    • Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

      • Ideal for data center access, aggregation, and core deployments
      • Provide the industry's most comprehensive data center features and programmability capabilities
      • Offer up to 1.3 Tb per slot of switching capacity, and more than 83 Tb per chassis
      • Provide high 1,10, 40, and 100 GE scalability
      • Deliver advanced services, high availability, hitless In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

    • Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches

      • Ideal for access- and space-constrained aggregation deployments
      • Offer line-rate and low-latency support for up to 96 40 GE ports or 384 10 GE and up to 160 unified ports
      • Support hardware VXLAN (Layer 2 and 3, gateway) and are Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE)-capable
      • Support Cisco Fabric Extender architecture and true 40 GE Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for LAN and SAN convergence
      • Include a comprehensive analytics toolkit

    • Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches

      • Ideal for 10 GE top-of-rack access deployments
      • Deliver broad connectivity support, including GE, 10 GE, 10GBASE-T, 40 GE, unified ports, Fibre Channel, and FCoE
      • Support comprehensive Layer 2 and 3 features for LAN and SAN traffic
      • Support hardware VXLAN (Layer 2 and 3, gateway) and are NVGRE-capable

    • Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switches

      • Are line-rate, extremely low-latency 10 GE switches
      • Help to reduce number of required switches, network interface cards, and power
      • Purpose-built with Unified Switch ASIC

    • Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches

      • Deliver flexibility, high density, and performance for top-of-rack deployments
      • Support mobility and tenant isolation with VXLAN
      • Include Python scripting, Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEM), and XML management tools
      • Deliver a comprehensive SDN solution, including OpenFlow and Cisco OnePK

    • Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders

      • Deliver 100 MB, and 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet server connectivity with 10/40 GE uplinks
      • Offer fabric extensibility with single point of management
      • Reduce data center cabling costs and footprint; optimize inter-rack cabling
      • Extend to partner blade servers such as HP, Dell, and Fujitsu

    • Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

      • Integrate directly with server hypervisors
      • Deliver virtual machine-aware network services, such as virtual machine mobility, in cloud environments
      • Accelerate server virtualization deployments and simplify management
      • Reduce total cost of ownership; provide consistency and network visibility

    • Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager

      • Multiprotocol management of storage and Ethernet networks
      • Troubleshooting of health and performance of Cisco Nexus and MDS switches
      • Simplified wizard and template-based configuration and provisioning
      • Dashboard and report-based resource management

    • Cisco NX-OS Software

      • Enterprise-class operating software
      • Provides unified operating environments for SAN and LAN
      • Supports virtual machine-aware SANs
      • Supports advanced storage services within the fabric

  • Cisco MDS Portfolio

    Cisco MDS Family products are ideal for deployments ranging from small fabrics to large data centers and intelligent SANs.


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