Switching Designed for Your Data Center

The Cisco Nexus family of data center switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following advantages:

• Infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency
• Transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric and can handle architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing
• Operational continuity to meet your need for an environment where system availability is assumed and maintenance windows are rare or nonexistent

Portfolio of Data Center Switches

All these switches use NX-OS Software, an operating system designed specifically for the data center and engineered for high availability, scalability, and flexibility.

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Modular switches with zero service loss architecture meet Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs and future unified fabric requirements.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches

Rack switches deliver high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (Video - 19:27 min).

Cisco Nexus 4000 Series Switches

High-performance, extremely low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) blade switches for x-86 based blade servers.

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders

Innovative platform provides a cost effective migration path from GbE to 10GbE while reducing TCO with simplified management and reduced cabling cost.

Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch

This software switch integrates directly with the server hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.