Introducing Cisco Plus. Simplified IT, your way.

It's all the benefits of Cisco, now as a service. Boost speed, agility, and scale with on-demand solutions that intelligently adapt to your business needs.

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Get industry-leading performance with Cloud Scale

Performance and scale

Get scale and investment protection with 1/10/25/50/100/400G multispeed ports.

Deep visibility and security

Industry-leading security and visibility with streaming telemetry, advance analytics, and line-rate encryption (MACsec).

Lower TCO

Get unified ports supporting 10/25 GbE and 8/16/32 G fiber channel, RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE), and IP storage.

Application performance

50% faster application completion time with intelligent buffers and zero packet drop.

Compare Nexus 9000 Series models

Cloud-scale ASIC facilitates ACI leaf-spine architecture and NX-OS VxLAN Fabrics with diverse modular and fixed portfolio.

Nexus 9500 modular switches

Nexus 9300 fixed switches

Nexus 400G portfolio

Cisco is named a Customers' Choice in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer'

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Introducing Nexus Dashboard:

A single platform for full-lifecycle data center automation.

Webinars

Learn about the latest data center networking news, trends and topics. Connect with subject matter experts, product engineers and guest analysts.

Futurum insights: What’s driving 400G forward?

Analysts and 400G SMEs talk market trends and 400G tech in this roundtable with Futurum Research.

What they're saying

“An application-centric architecture is the only choice to allow the network to be accessible to anyone.”
Bruno Mercer, Project Director of Data Center Infrastructure and Cloud, La Poste

Unlock the full value of your data center

Fabric management

Get comprehensive automation, extensive visibility, and consistent operations for your data center.

Day 2 operations

Use always-on software analytics capabilities for existing Cisco Data Center installations, whether they’re based on DCNM or ACI.

Multicloud networking

Capture business and user intents, and translate them into native policy constructs for apps across the cloud.

Networking software subscriptions

Cisco Smart Licensing is a flexible and secure licensing model that provides you with an easier, faster, and more consistent way to purchase, activate, manage, renew, and upgrade software products across the Cisco portfolio and across your organization.