Cisco announced an innovative family of data center-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centers. As the data center transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 vision.

The announcement features a new data center platform with both hardware and software innovations, including:

-  The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, the flagship data center-class switching platform combining Ethernet, IP, and storage capabilities across one unified network fabric

-  The Cisco Trusted Security (TrustSec) architecture

-  An advanced operating system, the Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS), and the Cisco Data Center Network Manager