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Cisco Delivers Trailblazing Innovations to Help Cloud Operators Save

Energy and Drive Operational Efficiencies

Continuing on its commitment to power an inclusive future for all
by connecting more people and things, Cisco shared new solutions
for helping enterprises, webscale and hyperscale companies
deliver richer cloud applications and services while balancing their
needs for more bandwidth, using less space and power.
Growing Challenges in the Data Center
The applications and workloads we rely on to do our jobs and live
our connected lives generate heavy loads of traffic, challenging
data center operations for cloud service providers. Operators are
balancing shifts in demand requiring them to add performance
and capacity while keeping their operations secure, economical,
sustainable, and easier to manage. Supporting complex, high-
bandwidth and low latency applications like AI/ML, 5G, virtual and
augmented reality are driving the need for 800G capacity, along
with the need to connect multiple data center buildings together
at high data rates.
Cisco’s Advantage increasing demands for connectivity.
Cisco is leading the way by providing choice to its customers with What’s New
options for disaggregated open-source operating systems along • Introducing new 800G platforms, Nexus 9232E and Cisco 8111,
with integrated, cloud-optimized embedded network operating powered by Silicon One G100 that delivers 26.5T in a single
systems. Customers making the transitions to 100G/400G/800G chip using innovative 100G-based SerDes design to drive higher
data center fabrics can rely on Cisco to help achieve the benefits power efficiency and scale in just 1RU.
of cost-effective scaling, sustainability and investment protection • With 256 x 112G SerDes, these compact platforms support
being demonstrated today in massive internet backbones around market-leading 32 ports of 800G, including 64 ports of 400GbE
the world, featuring high-performance, high capacity switching or 256 ports of 100GbE using breakout cables to enable
and routing solutions. “Cisco marked its moment in history in significantly higher densities in a small footprint.
2019, debuting the foundation for the Internet for the Future, • These platforms represent major engineering advancements
helping communication service providers around the world build needed to support high-performance connectivity demands,
a stronger, more efficient internet to connect more people and such as with bandwidth-intensive AI/ML compute clusters, and
things,” said Jonathan Davidson, Executive Vice President and designed for modernizing multi-level data center fabrics in public
General Manager, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud and and private clouds.
Mass-scale Infrastructure Group, Cisco. “Today, we are announcing • In addition to providing operational cost and carbon savings,
how we can uniquely apply those principles and innovations to Cisco is also offering flexibility in design choices, including:
support companies designing and building data centers for the - Integrated systems, such as with Cisco Nexus and NX-OS, that
future to achieve their sustainability goals. Our approach to meet support VXLAN, multi-tenant, multi-site, and multi-case as well
customers where they are now vs. forcing a one-size-fits-all policy as ACI, for data center and cloud deployments.
fosters flexible and open operations without restrictions.” - Disaggregated systems, such as with Cisco 8000 using
Marking Major Milestones open-source/3rd party Network Operating Systems (NOS) in
Cisco Silicon One continues to demonstrate its versatility by hyperscaler environments.
expanding to more use cases within the data center. It supports - Cisco is also introducing two new high-density industry-
ethernet for optimal interoperability and fully scheduled fabric for standard QSFP-DD800 form factor optical transceivers that
ultimate performance of AI/ML traffic, offering customers more double the port bandwidth and connect single mode fiber links
flexibility to evolve as their network performance needs change. in the data center up to 2km.
Today Cisco introduces new routing and switching solutions - These new optical transceivers allow customers to maximize
featuring the G100 processor, which provides the programmability, bandwidth on new 800G platforms with high density
bandwidth and efficiency necessary for today’s traffic demands. breakouts to 400G and 100G interfaces while protecting
Compared to solutions built from 12.8Tbps switches, the G100 can existing investments with backward compatibility to QSFP
provide 25.6Tbps with up to a 77% reduction in power and can save transceivers.
nearly 9,000 kg of CO2 emissions per year. (1) Industry Response
Cisco’s Solutions for Cloud Data Centers "Today, power, energy, and space efficiencies are critical for cloud
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit today, Cisco is operators that are spending billions of dollars to run their data
showcasing its portfolio of innovations for cloud operators that centers. What Cisco is offering with its Silicon One solutions
will redefine the economics of the cloud, helping customers meet demonstrates significant change in the economics for data center
their sustainability goals while boosting performance to support operations, offering customers a less is more model that will carry

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