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Cisco Data Center Networking

Achieve simplicity, AI readiness, and modernization

Stay in control with industry-leading network management, automation, real-time visibility, segmentation, sustainability, and simplified operations.

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Unlock the full potential of your data center—now.

Keep your data, workloads, and apps connected and secure for exceptional efficiency across your global data center networks.

Unify experiences across all data center networks

Choose the best operational experience for the job, every time, with secure on-premises and cloud-managed data center networking. Configure with ease, operate with confidence, and analyze for predictability with one fabric experience.

Review, react, relax

Make it easier than ever to assess the situation, deliver a solution, and get to what's next with increased visibility, clever automation, and rapid troubleshooting.

Work sustainably

Embrace smart energy data center networking with visibility into actual usage of power and carbon footprint and enjoy the benefits of being at the forefront of the net zero journey.

AI blueprint for networking

Boost cost efficiencies and performance with design best practices and automation templates for AI data center networking.

Data center switches

Data center switches designed for hybrid harmony

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches

Purpose-built low-latency switches to support business-critical applications and performance.

Cisco Nexus 9200 Series switches

Compact 100M/1G Base-T switch running Cisco NX-OS

Cisco Nexus 9300 Series switches

If spine and leaf or top of rack are your style, these fixed switches support ports from 1G to 400G to 800G. Enable AI-ready 800G infrastructure for data centers of any size.

Cisco 6000 Series switches

Cloud-managed switches that are easy to deploy and manage for Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric.

Cisco Nexus 9400 Series switches

These switches pack high performance and density plus better telemetry into a compact, modular design.

Nexus 9500 Series switches

Enterprise or high growth? Modular configurations can support you with ports from 1G to 400G.

Nexus 9800 Series switches

Get high-density 400G switching that's designed for 800G adoption and beyond.

Nexus 400G and 800G family

Bandwidth like you’ve never known. Adopt 400G with scalability to 800G with confidence in a family of 1, 2, and 4 RU switches.

Optics

Fiber-optic transceiver modules to accelerate your network connections.

Cisco Nexus 3500 Series portfolio

Design efficient, low-latency networks with programmable platforms, switches, and smart adapters.

Cisco Nexus 3550-T Series

FPGA-based programmable network platform for critical, ultra-low latency network applications.

Cisco Nexus SmartNICs

FPGA-based network interface cards (NICs). Ideal for ultra-low latency, high-resolution timestamping.

Cisco Nexus 3500 Series switches

Low-latency, 1 RU switches supporting 1G to 40G. Ideal for high-frequency trading (HFT) and big data environments.

Cisco MDS 9700 Series

A SAN director with scale, performance, integrated analytics, and superior port density.

MDS 9300 Series

Next-generation high-density fabric switch with integrated analytics and telemetry.

MDS 9200 Series

High-performance SAN extension, disaster recovery, intelligent fabrics, and multiprotocol connectivity.

MDS 9100 Series

Flexible and agile, highly available and secure, and easy to use, with visibility to every flow.

Cisco SAN Analytics

Visibility and data-driven guidance, for faster troubleshooting and optimized infrastructure.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Simplifies data center network management, boosts security with centralized app-centric approach with automation and policy-based control driving agile IT.

Cisco NX-OS

Make your network agile, easily scalable, and secure with simplified network operations and integrated automation.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Configure, operate, and analyze, all from one place. Private cloud managed across your data center networks.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric

New plug-and-play, cloud-managed operations and validation of the full lifecycle of data center networks.

Cisco N9300 Series Smart switches

Cisco smart switch with Cisco Hypershield is our platform play that integrates networking with security services.


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Cisco named a Leader in Gartner® 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching

See why we believe our industry-leading performance, simplicity, and scalability helped us earn this recognition.

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The AI blueprint: Network security, zero trust, and the SOC

Security solutions that protect against identity threats, enable AI adoption, reshape firewalls, and evolve analytics.

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Cisco Services

With you at every step

Guide your data center networking transformation journey with embedded services and expertise.

Cisco Hybrid Cloud

An exceptional consumption model

Ensure your energy expenditure remains balanced with flexible consumption for your hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Cisco Ecosystem

Joint solutions for increased productivity

Discover the extensible open APIs for today's modern Data Center applications.

Discover the business benefits of a more sustainable network

Go beyond compliance and learn how a more energy efficient data center can also help you optimize operations, gain visibility, and reduce costs.