BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking vendor Cisco updated its Catalyst and Nexus switching portfolios with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities.

These new capabilities provide an architectural approach across campus, data centre and service provider environments, and give customers a significant advantage while addressing emerging trends such as cloud, video, mobility, and the proliferation of 10 GE, said the company in a release.

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Cisco would offer investment protection with 40 GE performance options to its Catalyst 6500 switching line, and 40 GE and 100 GE capabilities in its Nexus 7000 portfolio for interconnecting data centres to service providers. 

To expand its campus aggregation and data centre top of rack switching, Cisco also announced two new fixed-configuration platforms that provide high-density 10 GE switching.

Cisco also announced network virtualization functionality for its Catalyst 6500, 4500 and Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 product lines with a new technology called Easy Virtual Network, as well as scalable virtual services with a new Nexus 1010-X appliance for the data centre.

Data Centre Switching

40/100 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities for the Cisco Nexus 7000 data centre switch.

Cisco offers two versions of the new M2-Series modules for the Nexus 7000. Nexus 7000 M2-Series 2-port, 100 GbE Module with XL Option delivers up to 32 high- density, non-blocking  100 GE ports for the Nexus 7000.

And Nexus 7000 M2-Series 6-port 40 GbE Module with XL Option provides 96 non-blocking 40 GE ports for the Nexus 7000.

Nexus 3064-X switch is a high-performance, high-density, ultra-low-latency Ethernet switch that is part of the new Cisco Nexus 3000 series switches, the release adds.

Virtual Extensible LAN or VXLANs are now supported on Nexus 1000V,  radically scaling the number of LAN segments that can be created over cloud networks to logically separate tenants and applications in the cloud.

Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) is extended to protect applications on VXLAN-based cloud networks. To meet cloud's growing scale requirements, Nexus 1000V will be scaling to more than 10 thousand ports in the future.

Cisco Nexus 1010-X Virtual Services Appliance offers a dedicated hardware platform for scalable deployment of services critical to virtualization infrastructure.