Cisco expands Open Network Environment (ONE) portfolio

Telecom Lead America: Cisco has expanded its Open Network Environment (ONE) portfolio, targeting data center and cloud environments.

These innovations are part of Cisco’s Unified Data Center strategy.

The networking major aims at addressing emerging trends around open networking, programmability and software defined networking (SDN) for all places in the network including data center, campus, cloud, and service provider deployments.

Cisco’s new products – eyeing strong position in software defined networking (SDN) market – include Cisco Nexus 6000; Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Network Analysis Module (NAM); Cisco Nexus 2248PQ fabric extender and the Nexus 5500 Series switch and a new Cisco ONE Software Controller.

Cisco’s Nexus 6000 Series expands its data center switching portfolio and brings the highest 10GE/40GE density in a fixed form factor.

Enterprises will benefit. For example, the Nexus 6000 can transfer the entire content of the Library of Congress in 210 seconds.

Cisco’s innovations are aimed at assisting enterprise customers to connect to multi-cloud and hybrid environments that expand the potential for their business operations and communications, and enable service provider customers to offer new monetized services while increasing agility and infrastructure optimization.

For instance, Royal Dutch Airlines has seen a large return on investment in Cisco Prime NAM by reducing system downtime and streamlining IT administration.

Ron van Vliet, IT specialist – Datacenter LAN, Wireless and VPN, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, said. “With thousands of connections to servers, we rely upon NAM to help keep vital network and customer services at maximum performance and availability. As we will be deploying Cisco Nexus 7000 switches in our data centers, we are pleased that NAM will also be available as a services module for that platform.”

Smartronix says Cisco’s new hybrid cloud architecture will help it quickly deploy its customers’ mission-critical applications to the cloud, while providing a seamless and secure extension of their data center environment to public cloud providers.

Robert Groat, chief technology officer, Smartronix, said: “This will help Smartronix optimize its customers’ existing IT resources while being more responsive to changes in their business activity and capacity requirements.”

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