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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

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Delivering the Next Generation Data Center

Build the network foundation you need for your next-generation data center. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular switching system designed to deliver 10 Gb Ethernet and unified fabric in the data center.

Nexus 7000 offers an end-to-end solution for data center core, aggregation, and high-density end-of-row connectivity.

The Nexus 7000 platform is run by Cisco NX-OS. It was specifically designed for the most mission-critical place in the network, the data center.

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The Cisco Nexus 7000 was designed around three principles:

  • Infrastructure scalability: Using virtualization, power and cooling efficiency, density, and performance to support efficient data center infrastructure growth
  • Operational continuity: Designing integrated hardware, software, and management to support zero downtime environments
  • Transport flexibility: Enables the adoption of new technologies in an incremental, cost-effective manner such as Overlay Transport Virtualization and FabricPath

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