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At-A-Glance
Cisco Unified Fabric: A More Intelligent
Network for Your Applications
Lack of time. Isolated resources. Growing complexity.
Limited scalability. Are these challenges too familiar?
If so, you can benefit from Cisco® Unified Fabric, a
solution to help you move your people and processes to
next-generation technologies while achieving scalability.
Cisco Unified Fabric, consisting of the Cisco Nexus®
Family, Cisco MDS 9000 Family, and Layer 4 through 7
services, provides a flexible and comprehensive data
center networking solution that delivers intelligent and
high-performing network services to servers, storage,
and applications. This industry-proven portfolio can help
you create a more agile, simplified, and flexible network
foundation. Extending from the hypervisor to the data
center core, it provides consistent operations across
physical, virtual, and cloud-based deployments.
Limited scalability. Are these challenges too familiar?
If so, you can benefit from Cisco® Unified Fabric, a
solution to help you move your people and processes to
next-generation technologies while achieving scalability.
Cisco Unified Fabric, consisting of the Cisco Nexus®
Family, Cisco MDS 9000 Family, and Layer 4 through 7
services, provides a flexible and comprehensive data
center networking solution that delivers intelligent and
high-performing network services to servers, storage,
and applications. This industry-proven portfolio can help
you create a more agile, simplified, and flexible network
foundation. Extending from the hypervisor to the data
center core, it provides consistent operations across
physical, virtual, and cloud-based deployments.
Using software-defined network (SDN), automation,
and orchestration tools, Cisco Unified Fabric helps you
create an open, programmable network backbone that
is easier and faster to deploy and manage. It takes a
revolutionary approach, using Cisco Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI), in which network behavior is guided
by the applications themselves. This approach results
in simplified operations and management and closer
alignment between the network and the applications that
it transports.
and orchestration tools, Cisco Unified Fabric helps you
create an open, programmable network backbone that
is easier and faster to deploy and manage. It takes a
revolutionary approach, using Cisco Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI), in which network behavior is guided
by the applications themselves. This approach results
in simplified operations and management and closer
alignment between the network and the applications that
it transports.
Figure 1. Cisco Unified Fabric – Delivering Architectural
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Growing Opportunities and Evolving
Requirements
New technologies and applications are allowing
businesses to reach new customers, create competitive
advantage, and ultimately increase revenue. Big data
and analytics, mobile application access, network
programmability, and cloud-based application delivery are
business enablers. However, they also lead to growing
volumes of data, variable traffic patterns, and increasing
complexity, which can result in resource constraints,
infrastructure sprawl, and increased operating expenses.
businesses to reach new customers, create competitive
advantage, and ultimately increase revenue. Big data
and analytics, mobile application access, network
programmability, and cloud-based application delivery are
business enablers. However, they also lead to growing
volumes of data, variable traffic patterns, and increasing
complexity, which can result in resource constraints,
infrastructure sprawl, and increased operating expenses.
Cisco Unified Fabric provides built-in intelligent
capabilities to align the network with business and
application requirements today and in the future. It can
help you build a data center network foundation that:
capabilities to align the network with business and
application requirements today and in the future. It can
help you build a data center network foundation that:
• Meets the performance, scale, and capacity needs
of diverse applications (whether virtualized or bare
metal) and increasing network traffic
metal) and increasing network traffic
• Provides the underlying infrastructure that helps you
simplify management and operations regardless of
architectural preference
architectural preference
• Delivers built-in, intelligent capabilities that help
ensure that the network aligns with both business and
application requirements today and in the future
application requirements today and in the future
Delivering Business Benefits
Cisco Unified Fabric takes a holistic approach to delivery of
Ethernet, storage, and Layer 4 through 7 services to data
centers of various sizes and designs. Benefits include:
• Scalability and performance to meet both current
Ethernet, storage, and Layer 4 through 7 services to data
centers of various sizes and designs. Benefits include:
• Scalability and performance to meet both current
and future needs: Build an intelligent, high-
performing infrastructure with multidimensional
scalability for the data center network. The solution
accommodates increasing switch sizes and
performance, system scale, and geographic span in a
simplified, evolutionary manner.
performing infrastructure with multidimensional
scalability for the data center network. The solution
accommodates increasing switch sizes and
performance, system scale, and geographic span in a
simplified, evolutionary manner.
• Reduced complexity and simplified operations:
Create an open, programmable network backbone
that is easier and faster to deploy and manage. SDN,
automation, and orchestration tools such as Cisco
Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) and ACI create
a closer alignment between the network and the
applications it transports.
that is easier and faster to deploy and manage. SDN,
automation, and orchestration tools such as Cisco
Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) and ACI create
a closer alignment between the network and the
applications it transports.
• Cloud readiness: Build an agile and efficient network
foundation delivering high availability, high density
10-, 40-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, server
workload mobility, and secure multitenancy. Cisco
Unified Fabric delivers operational consistency across
physical, virtual, and cloud architectures through
Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) and DFA
and the Cisco InterCloud solution.
10-, 40-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, server
workload mobility, and secure multitenancy. Cisco
Unified Fabric delivers operational consistency across
physical, virtual, and cloud architectures through
Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) and DFA
and the Cisco InterCloud solution.