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Switching Designed for Your Data Center

The Cisco Nexus family of switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center.  Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following advantages:

• Infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency



• Transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can handle architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing



• Operational continuity to meet your need for an environment where system availability is assumed and maintenance windows are rare, if not totally extinct

The ability to quickly adopt advanced technologies while retaining your network service quality can provide a powerful competitive advantage.  The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series and 7000 Series of data center-class switches combined with Cisco Nexus Services gives you this ability.  Designed for highly scalable end-to-end 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks, the Cisco Nexus family features continuous system operations and transport flexibility.  The Cisco Nexus family delivers innovative networking capabilities such as unified fabric; I/O consolidation; and high-performance, low-latency, 10 Gigabit Ethernet/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switching.  These capabilities help enable scalable server virtualization, can help lower power and cooling costs, and are critical to efficiently supporting a highly available data center core and server access.  They also help you address the higher bandwidth requirements that result from aggregating servers when you consolidate or virtualize your data center network.

The Cisco Nexus family of switches includes the following; all use NX-OS Software, an operating system designed specifically for the data center and engineered for high availability, scalability, and flexibility:

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
  Modular switches with zero service loss architecture meet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs and future unified fabric requirements.
  
  
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
  Rack switches deliver high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet (DCE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).



• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
  Innovative platform provides a cost effective migration path from GbE to 10Gbe while reducing TCO with simplified management and reduced cabling cost.



• Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch
  This software switch integrates directly with the server hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.

For more information regarding the Cisco Nexus family, visit www.cisco.com/go/nexus.