- Designed for the requirements of highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet
networks in mission-critical data centers, the Cisco Nexus 7018 and
Nexus 7010 are modular switches that are capable of delivering
continuous system operation and virtualized, pervasive services.
- The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series supports end-to-end data center
connectivity, consolidating IP, storage, and interprocess
communication (IPC) networks onto a single Ethernet fabric.
- A new 48-port Gigabit Ethernet fiber line card also joins the Nexus
family to support mixed Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments.
Virtual Port Channels (VPC) also enable higher availability,
large-scale virtual machine mobility, and higher bandwidth.
- Improved data center energy efficiency -- the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
uses power supplies with up to 90 percent efficiency. Fan modules in
the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal
characteristics, meaning less power is wasted as heat and more
power is available for the system to use.
-- The new
Cisco Nexus 5010 28-port switch is a one rack unit (RU) switch
supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet (DCE), Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel, able to consolidate
traffic from local area networks, storage area networks and server clusters
onto a single unified fabric.
- The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed for data center consolidation
combined with strong investment protection, helping customers to
transition to a unified fabric at their own pace while meeting
stringent customer requirements for operational continuity, transport
flexibility and scalability.
- With a unified fabric, IT organizations can simplify cabling
infrastructure, reduce the number of required adapters, lower costs,
and reduce power consumption and their carbon footprint.
-- The new Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender helps IT managers
cope with two key data center factors: increasing numbers of servers and
increased demand for bandwidth from each server.
- Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extenders connected to dual Cisco Nexus 5020
Switches can support up to 2,496 Gigabit Ethernet servers, greatly
improving scalability of the access layer without increasing
management points within the network.
- Combining Cisco Nexus 2000 switches and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Switches provides a highly cost-effective access-layer strategy
for Gigabit Ethernet and mixed Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
server environments.
-- Cisco
Catalyst 6500 enhancements enable customers to use the Catalyst 6500 as
a virtualized service node together with a Nexus core to secure and
accelerate applications cost effectively. Other software enhancements
include an In-Service-Software-Upgrade and support for long range
integrated 10GbE optics reduce the time needed for planned network
maintenance and facilitate virtual machine mobility across data centers.
--
Cisco Services has expanded its services offerings to support the new
additions to the Cisco Nexus family, with the goal of helping customers
realize the full potential of next-generation architecture.
Quotes:
-- "Today, the architectural shift in the data center marks an IT market
transition that will drive the benefits of virtualization to an entirely
new level," said Ed Bugnion, CTO, Server Access and Virtualization Business
Unit, Cisco. "Nexus technology supports our Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision to
help customers respond to changing business demands by providing support
for virtualization directly into the data center infrastructure."
-- "In this current economic climate, IT organizations are especially
pressed to continue innovating while cutting costs and increasing
efficiency," said Joe Skorupa, Research VP, Enterprise Network Services and
Infrastructure at Gartner. "CIOs and IT managers are particularly looking
at technologies that protect their existing IT investments, offer a fast
ROI, and provide a transition path to future technology advances with real
benefits."
-- Chinese University Hong Kong -- Supporting over 26,000 students and
staff, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is upgrading its campus
data centers using Cisco Nexus technology to provide cost-effective
next-generation IT capabilities that increase bandwidth and improve
application performance, security, and manageability. "At CUHK, we
proactively plan for the future by developing information technology
infrastructure to support both our current and anticipated student and
faculty requirements," said Mr. Philip Leung, Director, Information
Technology Services Centre, CUHK. "The Cisco Nexus platform will help our
data centers to better support a Web 2.0 learning environment, support more
internet-based collaboration with rich multimedia applications, and support
student enrollment growth, while also improving operational efficiency."
-- McDermott Will & Emery, a premier international law firm that
represents commercial, industrial, and financial enterprises, designed its
new data center using Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and Cisco MDS 9513
Multilayer Directors. "We were building out a brand new data center from
scratch and decided to move into the new unified fabric technology and a
10Gb Ethernet network architecture to prepare for our upcoming Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure implementation," says Edward Carroll, Network
Architect at McDermott Will & Emery. "What we wanted was a smaller
footprint and increased performance, along with the ability to virtualize
and consolidate using blade servers and the Nexus 5000."
-- "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology deployed the Cisco Nexus
platform to help virtualize our data center and to consolidate numerous
departmental data centers throughout the campus," said Theresa
Regan, director of operations and infrastructure services for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We gained 10Gb Ethernet
performance, and reduced cost by conserving space, power and cooling. In
addition, with the ability to provide virtualized services centrally we can
now fully leverage data center resources to support core academic and
administrative applications."
Supporting Resources:
-- Experience interactive 3D models of Nexus switches, view video data
sheets, try out the Cisco Nexus 5000 Unified Fabric Benefits Calculator,
access white papers and more at the Cisco Nexus Website.
-- Read News@Cisco
feature article on virtualization
-- Learn about Catalyst 6500
enhancements.
-- Press release: Yahoo! JAPAN
adopts Nexus platform
-- Press release: Service
Providers benefit from deploying the Cisco Nexus platform
-- Press release on Cisco Nexus
high performance computing solution for the financial services industry
-- Read "Cisco Data Center
Networks" blog
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