Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco 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.
Cisco ACI delivers 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. It uses a holistic systems-based approach, 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) to enable unique business value for modern data centers. This unique approach uses a common policy-based operating model across the network, drastically reducing the cost and complexity of operating your network.
Cisco ACI is an industry-leading SDN solution that provides policy-driven automation through an integrated underlay and overlay, is hypervisor agnostic, and extends policy automation to any workload — including virtual machines, physical bare-metal servers, and containers.
Cisco ACI Anywhere is a comprehensive solution: with one intent, using any hypervisor, for any workload, in any location, and in any cloud.
Cisco ACI Anywhere offers a set of capabilities that enable seamless connectivity between the on-premises data center, remote small-scale data centers, and geographically dispersed multiple data centers under a single pane of policy orchestration. In future, these capabilities will extend to public cloud as well.
With Cisco ACI, you can build a better network anywhere
