Cisco Embeds Security Services In New Line Of Programmable Switches
Cisco News, Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a family of data center switches that enable services to be embedded directly into the switching layer, beginning with security services.
Cisco's Nexus 9300 Series Smart Switches (pictured) combine the company's Silicon One E100 network processors and programmable data processing units from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The switch functions as a high-capacity, multifunctional service-hosting device. Cisco said they're an attempt to simplify data center infrastructure design as organizations increasingly adopt artificial intelligence applications, which may run at the center or edge of the network.
Traditional data center architectures require a specific device for each new service, creating complexity. In addition, security policies must be configured for each new service or workload.