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Myth Busting Part 3: Not all 400G and 800G switches are created equally

While other network providers continue to use commodity chips, Cisco has been developing custom silicon for Nexus switches since 2014. Creating our own ASIC was the only way to fully realize the promise of software-defined networking and enable advanced capabilities like network segmentation, flexible forwarding, intelligent buffering, and deep telemetry.

August 8, 2022 • 3 min read
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Myth Busting Part 2: Theoretical vs. tested?

Customers expect complete vendor transparency when it comes to equipment performance in a production deployment. This is where Cisco goes above and beyond the competition, being fully transparent with publicly available verified scalability guides for cloud networking infrastructure and controllers, tested in environments using unidimensional and multidimensional configurations for single and multi-site environments.

March 24, 2022 • 3 min read
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Wired Infrastructure: Optimized and Secure Switching Resources

Cisco commissioned Miercom to conduct an independent performance test on Huawei’s Agile Campus Network architecture. The test report consists of wired and wireless test cases. For the wired test cases, Huawei’s S5720-HI Series Agile Switch was compared and validated against the Cisco Catalyst 9300 and 3850 Series switches. This blog will take a deeper look […]

November 1, 2017 • 4 min read