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    Cisco Offers Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Service Providers

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    Jeff Burt
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    May 12, 2009
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      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.

      Check 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.

      Jeff Burt
      Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

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