Delivering the Next Generation Data Center

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This Cisco Nexus Family of switches for data centers provide the network foundation needed to deliver on the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision.

As Cisco's flagship switching platform, the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular switching system designed to deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric in the data center. This new platform delivers exceptional scalability, continuous operation, and transport flexibility. It is primarily designed for the core and aggregation layers of the data center but may also make sense in certain access layer implementations.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Platform is powered by Cisco NX-OS, a state-of-the-art operating system, and was specifically designed with the unique features and capabilities needed in the most mission-critical place in the network, the data center.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 was designed around three principles:

• Infrastructure scalability: using virtualization, power and cooling efficiency, density, and performance to support efficient data center infrastructure growth
• Operational continuity: integrated hardware, software, and management design to support zero downtime environments
• Transport flexibility: engineering foresight to enable the adoption of new technologies in an incremental, cost-effective manner

For a discussion of networking-based technologies designed to optimize data centers, see Cisco's Data Center Networks Blog.