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Data Center
Data Center has been our fastest growing major product category for each of the past five fiscal years. The Cisco Unified
Computing System (UCS), enables Fast IT by combining computing, networking and storage infrastructure with management and
virtualization to offer speed, simplicity and scale. Our architecture provides pools of policy-driven, composable infrastructure that
customers can optimize for traditional workloads, data analytics and cloud-native applications, all within a common operating
environment with an open application program interface (API) for broad interoperability and automation.
Key product areas within our Data Center product category are as follows:
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS):
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
• Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers
• Cisco UCS M-Series Modular Servers
• Cisco UCS C3160 Storage Optimized Rack Server
• Cisco UCS Mini branch/remote site computing solution
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco UCS Manager and UCS Director Management Software
Private and Hybrid Cloud:
• Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite
• Cisco Intercloud Fabric
Server Access Virtualization:
• Cisco Nexus 1000V
During fiscal 2015, we significantly expanded the Cisco UCS portfolio into data-intensive, service provider clouds and edge
computing environments. At the edge, Cisco UCS Mini is an all in one solution optimized for branch and remote office, point of
scale locations and smaller IT environments. Incorporating Cisco System Link technology and policy based management, the
Cisco UCS M-Series dense modular servers and Cisco UCS C3160 capacity optimized storage bring the Cisco UCS architecture
advantages to highly parallelized workloads, including cloud and scale out applications. Additionally, we continued to invest in
data center infrastructure management and automation software within our Cisco UCS Director product offering, and we
introduced our Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite enabling private and hybrid clouds for enterprise customers. We also enabled
cloud providers to offer hybrid cloud solutions to their customers with our Intercloud Fabric offering.
Our Data Center product innovations are designed to accelerate execution on our strategy, which is to enable customers to
consolidate both physical and virtualized workloads—taking into account the customers’ unique application requirements—onto
a single scalable, centrally managed, and automated system. We offer a portfolio of solutions designed to preserve customer
choice, accelerate business initiatives, reduce risk, lower the cost of IT, and represent a comprehensive solution when deployed.
Wireless
Wireless access via wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) is a fast-growing technology with organizations across the globe investing to provide
indoor and outdoor coverage with seamless roaming for voice, video, and data applications. We aim to deliver an optimized user
experience over Wi-Fi and leverage the intelligence of the network to solve business problems. Our wireless solutions include
wireless access points; standalone, switch-converged, and cloud-managed solutions; and network managed services. Our wireless
solutions portfolio is enhanced with security and location-based services via our Mobility Services Engine (MSE) solution. Our
offerings provide users with simplified management and mobile device troubleshooting features designed to reduce operational
cost and maximize flexibility and reliability. We are also investing in customized chipset development toward the goal of
delivering innovative radio frequency (RF) product functionality for our 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Our High Density Experience (HDX)
suite of solutions including Cisco CleanAir proactive spectrum intelligence, our ClientLink solution for mobile devices, and our
VideoStream video optimization technology are illustrations of ongoing investment activity in this area.
Key product areas within our Wireless category are as follows:
Cisco Aironet Series
Access Point modules for 3700 Series (802.11ac, 3G, WSSI, LTE/4G) and 3600 Series
Controllers (standalone and integrated)
Meraki wireless cloud solutions
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