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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

Cisco Systems
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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
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2017 Network Virtualization Report Categories:
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  • SDN Controller Product

2017 Network Virtualization Report: SDN Controllers, Cloud Networking and More - Online Edition > Chapter 7: Network Virtualization Products > Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) from Cisco Systems

The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cisco APIC) is the unifying point of automation and management for the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric.

Brochure/Datasheet: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/literature.html

Category Network Virtualization Product
Leading Verticals Cloud Service Providers, Financials, Government & Education, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom and Enteprise
Areas of Deployment Campus, Inter-Datacenter, Intra-Datacenter and WAN (incl SD-WAN)
Value Proposition

Unified automation and management for Cisco ACI infrastructure. Cisco APIC offers centralized access to all fabric information, optimizes application lifecycle for scale/performance and supports app provisioning across physical and virtual resources.

End-Points Supported Bare Metal Machines, Containers and Virtual Machines
Supported Hypervisors ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V and Xen
Hypervisor Integration

Cisco supports an open hypervisor strategy using the Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) using a consistent operating model. Cisco AVS provides full policy enforcement, open APIs, and a single point of management.

Orchestration Integration OpenStack and VMware vCloud Suite, Microsoft, VMware vRealize, AWS, Google, Cisco CloudCenter
Orchestration Integration Details

Cisco ACI supports multiple cloud stacks enabling enterprises to seamlessly build and operate automated hybrid cloud environments using a single pane glass for multi-cloud management.

NV Classification Hybrid, Overlay and Direct fabric programming
Southbound Protocols BGP, Netconf, OVSDB, Vendor-specific RESTful API, XMPP-based API and OpFlex, L4-7 Device Packages, CLI, RESTCONF, MP-BGP EVPN
Northbound APIs

Cisco APIC exposes northbound APIs through XML and JSON and provides both CLI and GUI which utilize the APIs to manage the fabric holistically. OpFlex, an extensible southbound protocol, supplies application policy directly to data center networks.

NV Encapsulation GRE, MPLS, NVGRE, VXLAN, STT and 802.1x

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