Cisco's Unified Delivery Service initiative combines its Nexus 7000 networking switch offering, Unified Computing System converged data center offering, CRS-1 carrier network platform and new CRS-1 modules to give service providers the building blocks to creating cloud computing environments. The plan also would extend the reach of virtualization beyond the data center to use between data centers and next-generation Web-based networks. Driving the need for the Unified Delivery Service is the growing demand from businesses to get more services out of their networks, Cisco officials said.
Cisco Systems is pulling together key pieces of its data center and
networking portfolios to create a blueprint for building a cloud computing
infrastructure for service providers.
Dubbed the Unified Delivery Service, the initiative combines such Cisco
technologies as its high-end enterprise-level Nexus 7000 Switch Series, CRS-1
carrier network platform, Unified Computing System converged data center
offering and a new carrier routing system with the capabilities offered through
IP NGNs (IP next-generation networks).
Cisco
officials said the new initiative, announced May 12, extends their data
center portfolio and is part of its Data Center 3.0 strategy, which looks to
unify the various parts of data centers and simplify the management and
operation of the facilities.
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out the building blocks for Cisco's UCS initiative.
The Unified Delivery Service initiative is driven in large part by the
demands of businesses for more services from their data center networks-Cisco
is estimating 46 percent annual growth in global Internet traffic-and the
promise of cloud computing.
"The unification of the data center and the IP Next Generation Network
is a natural progression not just in the evolution of networking," Kelly Ahuja,
senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's service provider routing
technology group, said in a statement. "It also builds the foundation for
innovative service providers ... to enable them to optimize their networks toward
delivering new revenue-generating cloud-based services."
Cisco's new CRS-1 Carrier Routing System
includes two new 10 Gigabit modules and a 40 Gigabit forwarding processor for
the
CRS-1
platform. The system is designed to extend virtualization technology from
the data center to the IP NGN core. It also addresses the needs of peering and
interconnect applications for a service provider's data centers.
Using the CRS-1 platform and new modules,
service providers can virtualize traffic and network operations on a
per-service or per-customer basis. They are combined with the Nexus 7000 Series
Switch and Cisco's UCS, which converges blade servers, storage, networking,
virtualization and management software into a single data center entity.
Cisco officials said the Unified Service Delivery initiative is designed to
enable virtualization in the data center, between data centers and across IP
NGNs.
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