Switches

This portfolio brings you industry-leading solutions for networking, security, and Layer 4-7 network services. It's designed for consistency across all your deployments: physical, virtual, and cloud-based.

The portfolio integrates with servers, storage, and orchestration platforms. The result: simple and efficient operations that deliver greater application agility and lower TCO.

Customers are choosing our DCN portfolio for the following reasons.

Broad Support Across all Segments

Our switches meet a wide array of needs within traditional and cloud data centers. The comprehensive DCN portfolio can serve as the infrastructure for private and hybrid cloud deployments, high-frequency trading, Web 2.0, disaster recovery, and big data applications.

Open, Programmable, and Application-Aware Networking

Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) is a comprehensive solution to help networks become more open, programmable, and application-aware. It does so with open APIs, open source, and open standards. Its broad capabilities help meet the needs of numerous market segments, including emerging concepts such as software-defined networking (SDN).

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a revolutionary new architecture that embraces all aspects of open networking.
ACI includes centralized automation and policy-driven application network profiles. It delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance, while bringing the network and other aspects of data center infrastructure closer to applications.

Automation and Operational Simplicity

ACI can reduce application provisioning time from weeks to days – and even minutes. It does so by:

• Automating the network functions required to bring up applications
• Centralizing management of these key functions
• Adopting a common policy framework operational model
• Automating service chaining