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: integrated hardware, software, and management design to support zero downtime environments.
- Transport flexibility: engineering foresight to enable the adoption of new technologies in an incremental, cost-effective manner.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 18-Slot Switch delivers
Infrastructure scalability for investment protection
- Designed for future scalability to switching capacity of more than 15 terabits per second.
- Modular, flexible, scalable Linux-based OS.
- Efficient power and cooling design.
- Virtualization for efficient resource utilization.
Operational continuity
- Lossless, nondisruptive upgrades for zero service downtime.
- Graceful system operations to minimize the effect of upgrades and other maintenance tasks.
- Comprehensive, open Extensible Markup Language (XML) API for flexible management options.
Transport flexibility
- Support for new technologies without total upgrades.
- Virtualized control plane and data plane forwarding for optimized performance.
- Support for emerging 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet standards.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 10-Slot Switch
Infrastructure scalability for investment protection
- Designed for future scalability to switching capacity of more than 15 terabits per second.
- Modular, flexible, scalable OS based on Linux.
- Efficient power and cooling design.
- Virtualization for efficient resource utilization.
Operational continuity
- Lossless, no disruptive upgrades for zero service downtime.
- Graceful system operations to minimize the effect of upgrades and other maintenance.
- Comprehensive, open Extensible Markup Language (XML) API for flexible management options.
Transport flexibility
- Support for new technologies without total upgrades.
- Virtualized control plane and data plane forwarding for optimized performance.
- Support for emerging 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet standards.
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