As a worldwide leader in networking solutions, Cisco provides networking products and solutions that simplify and secure network infrastructures for businesses, homes, and schools around the globe to improve productivity, reduce costs and streamline data center operations.  Cisco network systems solutions help enable anytime, anywhere, secure communications throughout your company and across the Internet. This is achieved by bringing together core networking functions, including unified computing, routing, switching, wireless, security, WAN optimization, collaboration and voice over IP.

Data Center Solutions

This portfolio of solutions, designed to meet your IT and business needs, can help you reduce total cost of ownership, accelerate business growth, and extend the lifecycle of current infrastructure by transforming your data center into more efficient, responsive and resilient asset.

Technologies
Cisco Unified Data Center solutions offer practical ways to overcome the limitations and constraints that affect your data center. Explore the technologies that support a resilient data center architecture and Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 strategy: » Energy-Efficient Unified Fabric

Unified fabric consolidates data, storage and server clustering traffic onto a single, general-purpose, high-performance, highly available network that greatly simplifies the network infrastructure and reduces costs. To do all this, a unified fabric must be intelligent enough to identify the different types of traffic and handle them appropriately.  In addition to reducing total cost of ownership, unified fabric supports broader data center virtualization by providing consistent, ubiquitous network and storage services to all connected devices. » Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco Unified Computer System combines compute (servers), network (LAN), storage (SAN) and virtualization technologies in a cohesive system that is designed to reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing business agility.  This next-generation data center platform accelerates the delivery of new services simply, reliably, and securely by radically reducing the number of devices requiring setup, management, power, cooling, and cabling. » Data Center Switching

The Cisco data center switch portfolio gives you a granular, cost-effective path to upgrading the capacity of your data center network infrastructure while still maintaining consistent implementation, management, and operations.  The adaptability of the Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches simplify capacity and capability upgrades.  Cisco data center switches also provide virtual machine mobility support, management, and operations tools for a virtualized environment. » Routing Solutions

Cisco routing solutions take a systems-level approach by embedding security into the network and integrating business-critical services across all products to help you boost productivity, meet customer needs, and reduce operating costs.  In addition to providing a platform that helps optimize the delivery of applications and communications, Cisco routers provide a framework for wireless LAN solutions to take advantage of the existing tools, knowledge, and resources of the wired infrastructure. » Storage Area Networking Solutions

Data center managers want to increase the efficiency of their data centers by reducing power and cooling requirements, increasing overall use of servers and applications, isolating application traffic, and addressing security issues related to data integrity.  Cisco storage networking solutions address these requirements by providing efficient SAN consolidation, offering investment protection and addressing data integrity concerns. » Data Center Security

Cisco's expertise in securing enterprise architectures helps you combine collaboration with protection. Our security solutions can help you protect your people, information, applications, and network by providing:

• A broad network security product line, from hardware appliances and software to security-as-a-service to risk assessment services, so your company can find a solution that is just right for your needs.

• Increased visibility into your overall infrastructure so you can proactively protect applications, computers, your network, and even physical locations.

• Comprehensive security intelligence, sophisticated threat correlation, and automated response, so you can be confident that your business is protected from new and emerging threats.

• Reduce complexity
• Enable tighter integration
• Close risk gaps
• Provide greater visibility to end-to-end security
• Make security easier to deploy and manage
• Implement advanced capabilities while protecting past investments

• Network Security - Build a network security infrastructure that inherently detects and blocks invasive software attacks and intruder access.
• Email and Web Security - Reduce costly downtime associated with email-based spam, viruses, and web threats
• Security Management Simplify the configuration, monitoring, and management of your Cisco security capabilities
• Secure Access Control Enforce network security policies, help secure user and host access control, and control network access based on dynamic conditions and attributes
Secure Mobility Create an environment that promotes highly secure mobile connectivity with the benefits of Cisco SSL VPN, IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels, user profiles, and named hosts

Cisco Unified Communications solutions unify voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks delivering a media-rich collaboration experience in any workspace and on any media, device, or operating system.  Cisco combines all forms of business communications into a single, unified solution that enables your organization to move with greater speed and agility. It empowers people to communicate more effectively, improves business processes, and helps businesses achieve better profitability.

The mass migration to IP telephony has delivered an initial wave of value to companies large and small. By consolidating voice, video, and data networks onto a single IP network, organizations have reduced the cost of communications, taken advantage of underused network capacity, and laid a foundation for unified communications.

Unified communications is now one of the top two strategic technologies for organizations. Companies of all sizes, including more than 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies, use Cisco’s network-centric approach to build competitive advantage.  Explore the technologies that support Cisco’s Unified Communications strategy:
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Conferencing
• Customer Care
• IP Telephony
• Mobile Applications
• IP Communications
• Messaging