Cisco WS-C3550-12G Switch Guide - Page 89

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Cisco's flagship modular data center-class product line: Designed to meet the requirements of the most mission-critical networks, the Cisco Nexus™ 7000 Series delivers continuous system operation and virtualized pervasive services. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is based on the highly resilient NX-OS operating system, with enhanced features to deliver real-time system upgrades with exceptional manageability and serviceability. Its innovative design is purpose-built to support end-to-end data center unified fabrics for consolidating LAN and SAN traffic over a single network and for high-performance campus core deployments. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is designed for highly scalable 1, 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet networks. With over 17 terabits per second (Tbps) switching capacity and 550Gbps per slot, the Nexus 7000 Series provides a flexible and scalable switching platform for Enterprises and Service Provider of all sizes. Powered by Cisco NX-OS, the Nexus 7000 Series offers a self-healing, robust and rich feature set with a variety of Cisco innovations. Cisco's NX-OS provides customers with an intelligent and scalable network operating system that offers numerous industry-leading innovations such as OTV, FabricPath, VDCs, LISP, and hitless ISSU for continuous availability, setting the standard for mission-critical environments. NX-OS delivers exceptional operational flexibility through a single operating system that is leveraged across all Nexus platforms, the Cisco MDS 9000 family of storage switches and the Cisco UCS 6100 Series of Fabric Interconnects of the Cisco Unified Computing System. This provides for consistent operations across physical, virtualized, and converged environments allowing you to implement a single operating system across network, storage, and compute infrastructures, simplifying data center operations and resulting in a positive effect on operational costs. IP routing and multicast: Supports state-of-the-art implementations of IPv4 and IPv6 services, routing protocols, and IP multicast features to optimize and enhance network scalability and performance, reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx). 87