Cisco this week extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking product line with new switches, integration with UCS Director, and migration tools for existing Nexus ...

As the November 6 launch date gets closer, more details are emerging on Cisco ... leaf applications; and 36x40G wire-rate cards with Insieme-only chips for Layer 3-only ACI fabric spine applications.

Cisco Systems is expanding its broad software ... a 1U (1.75-inch) 32-port spine-and-leaf switch that is powered by Broadcom’s Tomahawk silicon and can support port speeds ranging from 10G ...

Cisco is offering a feature—the Stretched Fabric—that enables each leaf and spine switch that is used to create a fabric to be located up to 30 kilometers (more than 18.6 miles) apart. ACI ...

ACI is designed as networking for data centers — very large data centers. It’s based on the Cisco Nexus switching fabric, with 10G, 40G, and 100G connectivity in a spine/leaf layout.

Cisco ACI in Small Doses Cisco is also offering prepackaged ACI bundles for $250,000 to $350,000. They include two or four leaf switches, two spine switches, and a cluster of at least three APICs ...

“We purchased Cisco ACI to replace them.” Cisco’s ACI uses a spine and leaf architecture where the leaf switches connect to all devices out in the network, and each leaf is connected to the ...

Cisco Friday made a number of updates to its Application-Centric Infrastructure SDN platform, including a new family of Nexus switches, integration between ACI and Cisco UCS, and new options that ...

Cisco on Thursday announced updates to its software-defined networking (SDN) offering, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), with the intent of simplifying network management for the growing ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - May 16, 2014) - Cisco ... leaf within customers' existing data centers. The Nexus 7000 Series switches and ASR 9000 Router will also be integrated into the ACI ...