Infrastructure Management Equipment

The Cisco® Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) is our software-defined networking (SDN) controller for enterprise networks (in the campus or branch and the WAN). It delivers an elastic platform for policy-based automation that simplifies and abstracts the network. It can enable transformation of business intent to network control. The platform is built to host multiple, easy-to-use SDN applications that use open, northbound representational state transfer (REST) APIs and drive core network automation solutions. The platform also supports a number of southbound protocols that enable it to communicate with the breadth of network devices customers already have in place, and extend SDN benefits to both greenfield and brownfield environments, immediately from the start. The goal of the APIC-EM platform is to power next-generation SDN applications that will dramatically lower operational expenditures and increase network agility to align with business needs.

The APIC-EM platform supports both wired and wireless enterprise networks across the WAN, and access and wireless infrastructures. It offers superior investment protection, and works with both existing and new infrastructure. The APIC-EM platform delivers many significant benefits. For example, it:

• Creates an intelligent, open, programmable network with open APIs
• Can help customers save time, resources, and costs through advanced automation services
• Can transform business-intent policies into dynamic network configuration
• Provides a single point for network-wide automation and control

Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™ is an innovative architecture that radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle.

Cisco ACI uses a holistic systems-based approach, with tight integration between physical and virtual elements, an open ecosystem model, and innovation-spanning application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), hardware, and software. This unique approach uses a common policy-based operating model across a network that supports Cisco ACI along with security elements (and computing and storage in the future), eliminating IT silos and drastically reducing cost and complexity.

The main benefits of Cisco ACI include:

• Simplified automation with an application-based policy model
• Common platform for managing physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments
• Centralized visibility with real-time application health monitoring
• Operation simplicity, with common policy, management, and operation models across application, network, and security resources (and computing and storage resources in the future)
• Open software flexibility for development and operations (DevOps) teams and ecosystem partner integration
• Scalable performance and secure multitenancy

The Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI® ) is part of our intent-based networking framework to enable agility in the datacenter. It captures higher-level business and user intent in the form of a policy and translates this into the network constructs necessary to dynamically provision network, security, and infrastructure services.

Built on top of the industry-leading Cisco Nexus® 9000 platform, Cisco ACI uses a holistic systems-based approach, with tight integration between hardware and software, between physical and virtual elements, an open ecosystem model, and innovative Cisco Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to enable unique business value for modern data centers

Cisco ACI is the industry's most secure, open, and comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution.

ACI enables automation that accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, simplifies management to easily move workloads across a multifabric, multicloud framework, and proactively secures against risk arising from anywhere. It radically simplifies, optimizes, and expedites the application deployment lifecycle.

Modern data centers are dynamic. IT operations must meet the expectation of quality-of-service business needs in a rapidly changing environment. ACI transforms IT operations from reactive to proactive with a highly intelligent set of software capabilities that analyzes every component of the data center to ensure business intent, guarantee reliability, and identify performance issues in the network before they happen.

As application usage gets more pervasive across an enterprise's network, IT professionals are looking to build solutions for consistent policy and encryption from the campus to the datacenter. With ACI integrations with SDA/DNA Center and SD-WAN, customers can now automate and extend policy, security, assurance, and insights across their entire networking ecosystem.

Your network must perform for your business to thrive. But your IT department is tackling wired and wireless convergence. It also faces growing complexity in application deployment architectures. All while it's rapidly adopting virtualization and cloud. And experiencing accelerating network traffic rates.

Cisco Prime NAM 2400 Appliances can help. They offer the performance and visibility to overcome these challenges. And you can scale the appliances to deliver resilient and consistent services.

Product Overview

Cisco Prime™ NAM 2400 Series Appliances are powerful devices that deliver exceptional application and network visibility. They provide deep application awareness to identify the applications running on the network, insightful traffic usage statistics to learn who is using them, extensive performance analytics to understand how they are performing, and granular troubleshooting to rapidly solve performance problems. So, you can get control over the network. And stay ahead of the rapidly changing IT landscape.