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Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Industry’s Most Comprehensive Software-De�ned Network Solution

Perform Application Lifecycle Managementfor Day-1 and Day-2 Operations

2 Create ApplicationNetwork Pro�les

4Automate Policy Con�guration andManagement Acrossthe Infrastructure

3De�ne Policies1

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DatabaseEPG

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App Contract

SQL Contract

ACL Allow 22, 80, 443 from *

QoS Class 5

Marking Gold

Redirect Load Balancer

Copy to None

ACL Allow 22, 8080,from Web Servers

QoS Class 5

Marking Gold

Redirect Firewall

Copy to None

ACL Allow 1443from App Servers

QoS Class 5

Marking Gold

Redirect None

Copy to None

Subject-matter experts de�ne policiesbased on application requirements

Cisco ACI Fabric with Cisco Nexus®9000 Series Switches

Network pro�les are reusableapplication templates

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) automates management of the Cisco ACI fabric

Centralized real-time health monitoring of physical and virtual networks

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Web Contract

App Contract

SQL Contract

Physical Networking Hypervisors and VirtualNetworking

ComputingLayer 4–7 Services Flash and TraditionalStorage

Multiple Data CenterWAN and Cloud

Open standards. Open source. Open ecosystem. Flexibility for DevOps teams and easy multivendor ecosystem partner integration

ScaleEase of scaling without added complexity or compromise on security, management, or performance

Policy automationAutomation for accelerated service delivery, reduced application management overhead, error elimination, and optimized resources

Full end-to-end andmultitenant securityApplication-centric model for �ne-grained control over applications and tenants to help ensure con�dentiality, integrity, and compliance

Real-time visibilityCentralized, application-level visibility, with real-time application health monitoring, givingyou con�dence and faster troubleshooting across the physical and virtual environments

BiDi TransceiversMigrate from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps using existing10-Gbps �ber cabling for faster installation timeand lower costs