Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller is the unified point of automation and management for the Cisco ACI fabric, policy enforcement and health monitoring. The APIC appliance is a centralized, clustered controller that optimizes performance and unifies operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant Cisco ACI fabric.
Robust agility
Allows application deployment within sites and across global data centers without complex Data Center Interconnect (DCI) infrastructure.
Automation
Automate the interconnect of multiple on-premises and cloud data centers.
Multi-tenant security
Provides a command-line interface (CLI) and GUI, which utilize the APIs to manage the fabric holistically.
Disaster recovery
Robust implementation of multi-tenant security, quality of service (QoS), and high availability.