Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a revolutionary re-thinking of how to provision and manage data center networks. While the early version we looked at has some rough edges, and ...

As promised, AVS supports Cisco’s new OpFlex policy protocol to communicate with an ACI controller — called APIC — and accept application service policy instructions from it.

The APIC, the heart of Cisco's ACI platform for SDN, is all software but will ship as a hardware product, at least in its initial form.

An executive from one Cisco Gold partner, who asked not to be named, said it's a good move on Cisco's part to make ACI available for older Nexus environments, but the fact that it's not a full ...

APIC EM is the software that will bring the Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Cisco's software-defined networking (SDN) framework, to Cisco's older equipment, such as the Catalyst line of ...

Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is an SDN solution at odds with the OpenFlow approach, ... you connect and boot the APIC servers, which are built on Cisco UCS 1U server hardware.

Today at Cisco Live Berlin, Cisco's annual IT and communications conference, AlgoSec, the leading provider of business-driven security policy management solutions, announced its new Connectivity ...

Cisco's Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC); The company's Nexus 9000 switch portfolio, which will have a starting price tag of $75,000 in most cases; And an enhanced version of ...

According to the Cisco Website, when using the ACI Stretched Fabric capabilities, customers should provision at least two APIC nodes at one of the sites—usually the one that is considered the ...

Its APIC controller, however, just started shipping last month, so it's not yet clear how many of those Nexus 9000 customers plan to deploy ACI. Cisco could announce more ACI customer wins during ...

Cisco Systems Inc. updated its software-defined networking (SDN) platform, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), adding support for Docker container technology, tighter security and more. ACI is ...