Hyperscale data centers: The rise of 400G.
Data centers are undergoing significant transformation. Consolidation, virtualization, and cloud technology continue unabated as IT leaders seek ever more simplicity, scalability,
and application workload agility. This has caused the underlying topology to move past traditional 3-tier architecture
(access, aggregation, core) to 2-tier spine and leaf—enabling
the era of the hyperscale data center. So, what was once
1GE at access and 10GE at aggregation is now 100GE at leaf and 40-400GE at spine.
Cisco offers a rich portfolio of hyperscale switches to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the modern data center:
- The high-density Nexus Series delivers unprecedented scale and investment protection with 1/10/25/50/100 and 400GE-capable ports –making terabyte networking (up to 12.8T) a possibility
- Cloud Scale ASIC delivers Cisco ACI-enabled leaf-spine architecture with industry-leading performance and software-defined networking
