Cisco Aci Wikipedia

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) is an application-focused architecture that enables agility in your data center. It provides a single point of policy-based automation and orchestration from apps to infrastructure.

Cisco ACI includes the following key components:

• Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

• Cisco ACI Multipod

• Cisco ACI Fabric

• Cisco ACI Security

Cisco ACI is designed to simplify the data center by automating many of the tasks that are manual or time-consuming today. It also provides the foundation for a more agile data center, where new applications can be deployed quickly and easily.

Cisco ACI provides the following benefits:

• Increased agility and speed of deployment

• Reduced operational costs

• Increased security and compliance

• Improved application performance

• Increased scalability