But now, Cisco is making certain features of ACI available to customers who are running prior-generation Nexus switches, including the Nexus 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000 and 2000 Series.

Cisco's efforts to converge data center infrastructure worked out well and now it's trying to do something similar with applications as it delivers its answer to software defined networking.

ACI communicates with network devices using OpFlex, Cisco’s operations control protocol, not OpenFlow, which is the OpenDaylight standard.

Cisco this week extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking product line with new switches, integration with UCS Director, and migration tools for existing Nexus ...

Cisco customers running Nexus environments can begin to deploy the ACI technology in their existing data centers.

While Cisco’s SDN customers are trending up, the TCO benefits of its solution are trending down. At its recent Cisco Partner Summit, Insieme SVP Soni Jiandani held up a slide that claimed over ...

Programmability and DevOps tools for Linux containers headline a cluster of Cisco ACI enhancements being announced at Cisco Live.

Cisco also pitched an architecture vision it calls data center anywhere as it aims to manage more cloud and hybrid environments.

Integration was made possible through the A10 device package, allowing ACI to automate the L4-L7 services on physical, hybrid and virtual appliances.

Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) manages both physical and virtual software-defined networks.