Guest

Data Center Switches

Introduction

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 characteristics:

  • 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.

All these switches 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

Modular switches with zero service loss architecture meet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs and future unified fabric requirements.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

Rack switches deliver high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet (DCE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (Video - 12:06 min).

Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

This software switch integrates directly with the server hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.

Featured Content

TechWise TV

TechWiseTV

Energy Efficiency in the Data Center (2:44 min)

Viewing this embedded video requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player with JavaScript enabled.

Get the Flash Player

Energy Efficiency in the Data Center (2:44 min)

Register To View

Data Storage Company Improves Grid Computing Testing Environment

Read Case Study (257 KB)


Cisco Nexus 3-D Interactive Models

Explore the features and elements of the current Nexus series switches.
View Nexus 7000 3D Model
View Nexus 5000 3D Model

Stay Connected

Additional Resources