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