Cisco unveiled a new data center networking architecture.

Cloud’s trend obliges, Cisco increasingly accelerates, the improvement and consolidation of its portfolio of Cloud services and applications. Henceforth available, Cisco’s architecture aims to
transform data centers to better address the demands of new and current applications in the Cloud era.

According to Cisco, this fundamental shift to application-centric infrastructure will provide IT with the ability to quickly deliver business applications to end-users with a simpler operational model, scalable secure infrastructure, and at optimized cost. 

In addition Cisco also announced two key innovative enhancements to its Unified Fabric portfolio:

·        Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA), which automates network provisioning, simplifies fabric management and optimizes fabric for greater efficiency and scale.

·        extensions to the Nexus 7000 portfolio with new Nexus 7700 Series switches and new F3 Series I/O Modules that deliver industry leading 40G/100G scalability, with the most comprehensive set of data center switching features.