Cisco Continues to Drive Data Center Innovation

New High Performance Nexus 9000 Switches for Application Centric Infrastructure; New Nexus 3000 Switch for Cloud Providers - Seite 3

• With 576 wire-speed 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 60 Tbps throughput, the Nexus 9516 is the industry's highest density wire rate switch, removing barriers to scale and simplifying network design. The Nexus 9516 was selected as a finalist in the data center category for a 2014 Best of Interop award.
• The Nexus 9504 provides a cost effective option to solve migration from core-aggregation-access to spine leaf architectures. With the Nexus 9504 partners now have new engagement options for customers seeking lower density aggregation and access designs.

The new Nexus 3164Q switch, designed for the most demanding workloads, is an ultra-dense, high performance switch that delivers flexible connectivity for either 40 Gigabit or 10 Gigabits ports (up to 256 10Gigabit ports) in a 2 RU and a rich NX-OS feature set. The Nexus 3164Q offers seamless mobility with workload isolation, wire rate layer 2/layer 3 switching, and enhanced programmability options. 

New Cisco Specialist Certifications: are being developed specifically for network programmability job roles. Cisco training and certification programs will develop specific skills for each job role:

• Business Application Developer: gain awareness of the new open data center environment
• Designer, or Architect: achieve capability of integrating application
• Engineer: integrate and troubleshoot in a programmable cloud environment
• Developer: use programmatic interfaces for network automation including JSON, XML, Python, Puppet/Chef, and OpenStack.

Cisco Consulting Services: deliver measurable business gains in faster deployment time, reduced infrastructure costs, and acceleration to revenue. New services designed for ACI deployments include:

• Cisco Readiness Planning: identifies risks and opportunities, provides operational analysis, and delivers detailed migration plans for smooth successful transitions to ACI. 
• Cisco Quick Start Service for Nexus 9000: assistance to help deploy Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches.
• Cisco Accelerated Deployment Services for Nexus 9000: support rapid transition to an application-centric architecture.

Cisco financing solutions: support customers and channel partners worldwide in acquiring innovative data center technologies such as Cisco UCS and Cisco ACI, Cisco provides specialized and flexible financing solutions through Cisco Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems.