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Data Center Connections using “nV edge”
The ASR 9000 product family has recently come out with a new feature called nV Edge (nV = Network Virtualization). This feature unifies the data center edge control, data and management planes. So, I’ll note a couple things here on this feature and then tell you why I think it has potential to be truly awesome.
My good friend Rabiul Hasan just wrote a proof of concept document just posted to Design Zone that provides the configuration and setup details. I encourage you to go check it out here.
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Tags: asr 9000, asr9k, Data Center Interconnect, DCI, nV, nV Edge, VPLS
- Cisco ASR 9000 system with nV
We’ve talked a bit before about Cisco’s revolutionary network Virtualization technology or “nV.” In case you aren’t familiar with it, nV technology on the ASR product family intelligently blends the network edge, aggregation and access layers into a single system. This can deliver up to 70 percent operational expense savings, increase network capacity and accelerate IPv6 service deployments (very important since we’ve got the World IPv6 Launch next week). nV therefore addresses some of our customer’s most important business concerns by:
- Lowering capital costs by simplifying the network
- Lowering operational expenses by scaling the network operational efficiencies
- Increasing revenue by enabling them to better leverage network intelligence
But don’t just take our word for it. ACG Research has developed a Read More »
Tags: ACG Research, asr, ASR9000, ASR9000 system, Cisco, network virtualization, nV, Ray Mota, Service Provider
I just got back from Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2011 in Amsterdam and it provided a great opportunity to meet many of our service provider customers from around the world. It also proved to be an ideal forum to share experiences as well as visions for the communications industry between different vendors and network operators. For the Cisco team, one of the highlights of the event was winning the “IIR Carrier Ethernet Vendor Award EMEA” in the “Best Carrier Ethernet Aggregation Product” category with the Cisco ASR 9000 System. Now deployed with over 750 customers worldwide, this was another great endorsement of our Carrier Ethernet strategy and the cost benefits associated with Cisco Network Virtualization (nV) technology.
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Tags: ASR9000, awards, carrier ethernet, Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Cisco, IIR, Light Reading Ethernet Expo, MEF, mpls, network virtualization, nV, Service Provider
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, network operators will deliver upwards of a zettabyte (1021 bytes) of data to 15 billion fixed and mobile devices by 2015. That will be the challenge of the Next-Generation Internet.
To meet that challenge, service providers will need networks that meet the following requirements:
- Support for mobile, business and residential services over a converged infrastructure
- Unprecedented scale and density
- High service availability
- Increased service velocity
- Reduced network complexity Read More »
Tags: ASR 901, ASR 903, ASR9000, Cisco, network virtualization, nV, Service Provider, system, visual networking index, vni
