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Cisco Nexus® Dashboard streamlines data-center networking through powerful automation and analytics. Modern data-center networks are critical to meeting business demands, and organizations need to deploy reliable networking services quickly and consistently. Yet managing today’s infrastructure is increasingly complex—distributed environments, diverse platforms, multiple configuration and monitoring tools, and massive volumes of real-time data all add to the operational burden. Nexus Dashboard brings these elements together to simplify operations and enhance visibility across the entire network.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Benefits of Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a comprehensive management platform that transforms data center network operations and automation. With its unified approach and cutting-edge features, it delivers unparalleled efficiency and control. Here’s how it can benefit your network:
● Unified Fabric Management: Seamlessly manage Cisco ACI®, NX-OS, IOS-XE and SONiC fabrics through a single platform, delivering a consistent and cohesive operational experience.
● Nexus One Fabric Experience: Common data, control, policy, and management plane across Cisco NX-OS VXLAN EVPN and ACI fabrics. Ensures consistent operations, segmentation, L4–L7 service insertion, and interoperability across data-center fabrics, enabling innovation and lower TCO.
● AI-Driven Intelligence: Maximize AI network performance with Cisco® Intelligent Packet Flow, and advanced analytics to accelerate troubleshooting.
● Streamlined Operations: Simplify workflows and improve efficiency with an intuitive interface, robust automation tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) capabilities for accelerated deployments.
● Enhanced Visibility and Sustainability: Gain actionable insights into network performance, avoid unplanned outages, discover energy usage, costs, and emissions, with recommendations to optimize uptime and minimize environmental impact.
● Digital Resilience and Innovation: Ensure compliance, faster connectivity, and operational assurance across environments with built-in automation, resilience capabilities, and integration with tools like Splunk®.
● AgenticOps-Powered Excellence: Enhanced by AgenticOps, a framework designed to enable intelligent, automated, and collaborative operations.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard is the key to unlocking the full potential of your data center networks, ensuring optimized performance and operational excellence.
Customer and partner quotes
“Nexus Dashboard streamlines our architecture deployment and fuels our expansion strategy with crucial insights to minimize downtime for consumers.”
Nathan Litz,
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“Cisco developed NBM and I think it’s a perfect way of running an IP infrastructure for broadcast. It’s a non-blocking infrastructure with mechanisms to protect flow policies.”
Yannick Olivier, Broadcast Engineer
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“The Nexus platform allows us to scale out to faster speeds and bandwidth. It also lets us utilize higher buffer rates to ensure that all of our data—whether it’s storage, video, voice, or audio—is sent seamlessly throughout our network.”
Ralph Riley, Director, Broadcast IT Systems
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“Together, Cisco and Panduit help our joint customers build resilient, energy efficient, and high-performance data centers.
Our collaboration has grown beyond network infrastructure to the strategic area of power and sustainability.
We have partnered with Cisco to streamline data from our intelligent PDU wiPDU) into Sustainability Insights on Cisco Nexus Dashboard. We are dedicated to driving greater visibility into sustainability innovations with Cisco, enabling customers to monitor and forecast their future energy needs, costs, as well as carbon emissions through our integration with Cisco Nexus Dashboard.”
Holly Garcia,
VP Data Center, Panduit
Cisco Nexus Dashboard software is included with all Cisco N9000 Series switch tiered-license purchases.
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