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

The latest release of the APIC software includes a feature that enables the ACI Fabric to link switches at sites up to 18.6 miles apart.

Cisco is pricing ACI software as a single perpetual license per leaf to “keep it simple and predictable,” says Director of Product Management Thomas Scheibe.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Cisco ACI platform for SDN gets its first taste of integrated security, adding firewall and IPS features acquired with Sourcefire.

Cisco on Thursday announced updates to its software-defined networking (SDN) offering, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), with the intent of simplifying network management for the growing ...

Cisco today boasted about several service providers that are using its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), including Integra, NTT DoCoMo, and some smaller European companies. But when asked ...