Cisco Nexus 9000

March 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

No Latency Load Balancer in Data Centers

1 min read

Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is a zero latency multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancer available on 5k/6k/7k/9k. It has support for traffic steering and clustering solution on the Nexus  series of switches. ITD allows customers to deploy servers and appliances from any vendor with no network or topology changes. With a few simple configuration steps on […]

February 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane

3 min read

Given the tremendous interest in VXLAN with MP-BGP based EVPN Control-Plane (short EVPN) at Cisco Live in Milan, I decided to write a “short” technology brief blog post on this topic. VXLAN (IETF RFC7348) has been designed to solve specific problems faced with Classical Ethernet for a few decades now. By introducing an abstraction through […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

New Nexus 9300 Switches join the Nexus 9000 Series

2 min read

It’s an exciting time in to be in our industry, especially as we witness how technology continues to reshape how we connect and communicate through a myriad of applications and devices...

February 25, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep2: Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

1 min read

Welcome to Episode 2 of #CiscoChampion Radio, a podcast series by and for Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco’s Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we’re talking about Application Centric...

January 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Independent Report Validates that Cisco Nexus 9000 Offers the Most Comprehensive, Open Programming Environment

2 min read

As IT departments move to private cloud offerings, DevOps methodologies, and continuous integration capabilities, many segments of the data center market have a strong need for more open, programmable, and...

January 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus 9508 Switch Shines for 40GbE Aggregation in Switch Performance Tests

2 min read

At the heart of the transition to cloud computing is on-demand provisioning of a wide variety of applications, linear scalability of resources, and non-stop operation at lower total cost. With...