Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is an industry-leading secure, open, and comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution. It radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance and expedites the application deployment lifecycle.

Being hypervisor agnostic, it extends policy automation to any workload — including virtual machines, physical bare-metal servers, and containers. And the solution is comprehensive, with the sole intent of using any hypervisor, for any workload, in any location, and in any cloud. It relies on an intent-based networking framework to enable agility in the data center. It captures higher-level business and user intent in the form of a policy and translates this intent into the network constructs necessary to dynamically provision the network, security, and infrastructure services. The holistic systems-based approach at its heart, with tight integration between hardware and software and physical and virtual elements, an open ecosystem model, and innovative Cisco customer Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) enables ACI to drive unique business value for modern data centers.