Scalable, Reliable, High-Performance Switching

Cisco's flagship switching platform is designed to deliver performance, flexibility, and zero service loss for the next-generation Unified Fabric data center.

Features and Capabilities

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