Products

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Important Features

High Performance with Comprehensive Feature Set

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches offer one of the most comprehensive data center network feature sets in a single platform. They deliver high performance and density for both data center and campus core. They also offer a full feature set for data center aggregation, end-of-row, and data center interconnect (DCI) deployments in a highly resilient modular platform.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series runs on Cisco NX-OS Software. It was specifically developed for the most mission-critical enterprise and service provider deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed around three principles:

Infrastructure Scalability

Virtualization, efficient power and cooling, cloud scale with automation, high density, and performance all support efficient data center growth.

Operational Continuity

The design integrates hardware, NX-OS software features, and management to support zero-downtime environments.

Transport Flexibility

You can incrementally and cost-effectively adopt new networking technologies.

Technologies that you can support include:

• Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE)
• Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA)
• Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
• Cisco FabricPath
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Cisco Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
• Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD)