Cisco used the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to highlight its Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 portfolios targeting cloud operators to help transform their infrastructure to meet sustainability goals. New routers and switches are powered by Cisco Silicon One enabling customers to evolve their AI/ML networks by adopting either standard Ethernet or full scheduled fabric.
Cisco used the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to highlight its Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 portfolios targeting cloud operators to help transform their infrastructure to meet sustainability goals. New routers and switches are powered by Cisco Silicon One enabling customers to evolve their AI/ML networks by adopting either standard Ethernet or full scheduled fabric.
Cisco focused on its blueprint for assisting enterprises, webscale, and hyperscale companies to deliver richer cloud applications and services while balancing the need for more bandwidth using less space and power.
Solutions for Cloud Data Centers
Cisco showcased its portfolio for cloud operators that will redefine the economics of the cloud, helping customers meet their sustainability goals while boosting performance to support increasing demands for connectivity.
Highlights include:
- Cisco Silicon One for the Data Center: Silicon One, Cisco’s unified architecture, is expanding to more use cases within the data center. The G100 processor used in the 8111-32EH router and Nexus 9232E 800G platforms delivers 25.6Tbps of throughput, offering the programmability, bandwidth, and efficiency to support today’s networking traffic demands.
- Cisco Silicon One for AI/ML: Cisco Silicon One offers a single architecture to support ethernet for interoperability and fully scheduled fabric for ultimate performance, regardless of traffic patterns, to ensure job completion times and maximize the performance of advanced AI/ML algorithms. This combination lets customers deploy a single network and evolve it as their performance needs change- while at the cost and power points of ethernet switching.
- New Cisco 8000 Series and Nexus 9200 Series Powered by Silicon One:
- Cisco 8100 Series: One and two RU platforms designed to ensure operational flexibility with support for both Cisco’s IOS XR operating system and SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), part of the Linux Foundation. The Cisco 8111-32EH supports 32 ports of 800G (or 64 ports of 400GbE with a breakout cable) in a compact 1RU form factor, shipping now.
- Cisco 8200 Series: Supports up to 12.8Tbps, the compact 1 and 2 RU 8200 Series requires less space and power than legacy chassis to reduce carbon footprints.
- Cisco 8800 Series: The Cisco 8800 Series delivers density and efficiency in a modular chassis. In addition to reducing per-port power, it has the potential to remove entire layers of hardware from the data center by reducing the number of routers required in each location.
- Nexus 9232E Series: The Nexus 9232E is powered by the Silicon One G100, utilizing the Cisco NX-OS for its operating system.
- New double-density 400G with Cisco QSFP-DD800 optical transceivers:
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- Two new high-density industry-standard QSFP-DD800 form factor optical transceivers that double the port bandwidth. The 2x400G-FR4 and 8x100G-FR modules connect single-mode fiber links in the datacenter up to 2km.
- These new optical transceivers allow customers to maximize bandwidth on new 800G platforms with high-density breakouts to 400G and 100G interfaces while protecting existing investments with backward compatibility to QSFP transceivers.
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Cisco provides a choice to its customers with disaggregated ASICs, software, hardware, and optics to support open-source network operating systems and massively scalable networks.
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