Appendix A. Cisco Data Center Portfolio

Started in the early 2000s, the Cisco Data Center portfolio enlists multiple products that together form a feature-rich integrated architecture. For that reason, their development has been conducted in a way to increase productivity and agility in customer environments, as well as to diminish the level of guessing and interoperability issues.

The objective of this appendix is to provide a brief description of each solution from this portfolio. And such an account will include, whenever possible, their format options, scalability numbers, and performance.

Because the portfolio is in a constant state of evolution, this appendix will offer a snapshot of its products at the time of this writing. In fact, you ...

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