The Best of Interop Awards for 2014 were announced today at 5.30 PM, at the Interop Theater. Cisco Nexus 9516 switch won the Best of Interop award in the Data Center category. Check out http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/expo/best-of-interop-awards.php for details

To learn more about this unique product, you can refer to the following posts.

Best of Interop Finalist 2014 -Meet Cisco Nexus 9516 the new big, bad boy of Nexus 9000 Family

Best of Interop Awards: Cisco APIC and Nexus 9516 Switch Selected as Finalists

I want to extend my congratulations to the entire team at Insieme Network Systems Business Unit and recognize their hard work in developing this award winning switch.

Cisco appreciates the recognition from the Interop judges and it's a great complement to the recognition the Nexus 9000 is getting from its customers.  Six Nexus 9000 customers deploying Nexus 9000 in their cloud and datacenter environments will be speaking at our live webcast

New Applications Are Knocking: Is your Data Center OPEN for Business?

On April 2 at 1:00PM PDT/ 4:00PM EDT to hear Cisco's Soni Jiandani, SVP Marketing and Rebecca Jacoby, CIO along with leading technology executives from partner companies.  We will also discuss today's major technology announcement on OpFlex so join us! Register Here

Press Release

Cisco and Industry Leaders Will Deliver Open, Multi-Vendor, Standards-Based Networks for Application Centric Infrastructure with OpFlex Protocol