What if you could reduce your routing and optical footprint while adding more capacity to expand bandwidth and simultaneously lower your costs? What if you had more visibility into your network, more control over how you wanted it to run, and greater agility to support new services?
It seems there’s no limit to the growth of network traffic. Digitization is driving IP traffic within data centers at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.4 percent between 2016 and 2021 to 14.7 Zettabytes annually. In turn, this drives data center to data center IP traffic growth at a CAGR of 32.7 percent during that time to 2.8 Zettabytes annually.1
For large organizations operating high-performance networks, this growth in traffic is impacting your networking between data centers. You face challenges to deploy solutions that maintain a high-quality experience for employees and customers at the lowest possible cost. You need data center interconnect solutions that promote greater density among existing transport resources and a long-term vision that embraces a high degree of automation, intelligence, and flexibility in resource sharing.
Cisco® Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions facilitate various enterprise data center interconnect requirements. They are designed to help you simplify, automate, and optimize different types of data center connections, including intra-data center campus connections, enterprise data centers and disaster recovery connections, as well as connecting to colocation sites, for routing to content providers and carriers across metro and long-haul networks.
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Figure 1. Data Center Interconnect for enterprise disaster recovery
Figure 2. Data Center Interconnect for access to cloud infrastructure
As more data traffic flows between data centers, you need solutions that allow you to quickly deploy and manage optical and routing infrastructure so you can deliver high-quality experiences for employees and customers, at the lowest possible cost. As a result, you need:
The Cisco Data Center Interconnect solution is optimized for high density with a small footprint, is deployed with a single operating system across both routing and optical layers, and is delivered with a unified management system.
Additional technologies that can be used with this solution include:
Ethernet VPN (EVPN) was designed to meet key requirements for data center interconnect environments. EVPN provides the next-generation layer 2 VPN service infrastructure. It enables the ASR 9000 running multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to advertise and learn MAC addresses for access topology and VPN endpoint discovery. This eliminates the need for signaling of separate point-to-point pseudowire VC labels for each remote PE, enabling tremendous scale. EVPN also brings seamless host mobility for near-instantaneous failover. If a VM in one data center goes down, another VM in a different data center is automatically created, so service is not lost.
Figure 3. Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Routers with Data Center Interconnect
The Cisco DCI solution is optimized for high density with a small footprint, is deployed with a single operating system across both routing and optical layers, and is delivered with a unified management system.
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Disaster recovery |
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Metro and regional DCI |
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Cloud exchange |
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As a global networking innovator, Cisco understands your needs to harness the latest cost benefits and features of the network to survive and thrive. Our DCI solutions span the broadest range of platforms, technologies, and topology options designed to provide you with the right solution to address your specific needs.
Our customers are pursuing DCI solutions to enhance workload mobility and to provide business continuity and disaster recovery. New, simplified, more efficient, more automated, and lower-cost ways of interconnecting data centers are here. Trust Cisco to be at the forefront of these developments and look to us as a valuable partner.
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