Cloud Computing

Cisco Nexus: Join cloud-scale efficiency and sustainability

October 19, 2022

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Asserting the primary Cisco 800G Nexus Change

It’s the week of the Open Compute Undertaking World Summit a convention that draws the largest names representing cloud suppliers, colo-facilities, enterprises, telco service suppliers, media, and authorities entities, a gaggle who construct and function excessive efficiency infrastructure. Our prospects are right here in drive and we launched our blueprint for serving to cloud service suppliers (each hyper scalers and webscale prospects) ship richer cloud functions and companies, whereas balancing their wants for increased efficiency, value efficient, but extra environment friendly, therefore extra sustainable networking infrastructure.

For our Cloud Networking prospects, 2022 seems to be a block buster yr. It was solely in June that I wrote about thrilling new 400G Nexus platforms. All of those are actually transport. This week I’m proud to announce the addition of the primary 800G Nexus product to the wealthy Nexus portfolio. The Nexus 9232E is a 1RU Nexus change with 32ports of 800G.

So, what use case wants an 800G change? I don’t suppose there’s a dispute that the tempo and scale of information middle networking buildouts is accelerating. Two enjoyable details:

In 2011, the primary yr of the OCP occasion, the whole quantity of information created and saved on the earth was just below two zettabytes. In 2022, that’s anticipated to develop to almost 100 zettabytes.
Equally, the variety of customers (by MAU or month-to-month lively customers) for Meta companies, who was one of many founding members of OCP, grew from 845 million in 2011 to almost 3 billion  as we speak.

What’s turning into clearer are the numerous use circumstances for AI/ML for each community operations workforce in addition to utility groups. AI/ML capabilities are essential for digital twin kind predictability of community change outcomes in addition to for modeling extremely personalized utility outcomes in the actual and meta world. Certainly, by 2025, 44 % of world information created within the core and edge can be pushed by analytics, synthetic intelligence, and deep studying, and by an growing variety of IoT gadgets feeding information to the enterprise edge.

It’s no marvel that our prospects are actively on the lookout for revolutionary options addressing their key questions:

How do I deal with visitors/ information progress whereas coping with an more and more difficult energy/ energy value atmosphere?
Can I proceed to scale this infrastructure however achieve this in a wise, sustainable method?
Can community bandwidth be utilized extra effectively whereas nonetheless supporting present cloud community deployments?

Cisco’s cloud networking distinction

We’re exhausting at work in fixing these buyer challenges. 800G expertise is one in every of many steps on a journey. Our prospects need constructive outcomes within the areas of experiences, economics, and atmosphere with respect to their hybrid cloud community infrastructure. So, our new Nexus 800G product will ship the identical advantages that Nexus cloud networking prospects already get pleasure from together with:

Excessive Efficiency: Large throughput with Silicon One 25.6T G100 ASIC and good system design that can energy the following era of community improvements and breakthroughs.
Flexibility and Agility: Selections in community working methods, pace, kind elements, optics to fulfill nearly any use case.
Programmability: Enabled via open APIs and protocol assist in our cloud community optimized OS.
Density and Scale: For each fastened and modular methods providing scalability from 100G to 400G to now 800G.
Vitality Effectivity: Considerably improved energy per bit leveraging 112G Serdes expertise.
Simplicity: Manageability, optics backward compatibility enabling much less gear wanted to scale increased.