Cisco ACI
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Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure | 4 |
| Cisco ACI canonical | 3 |
| Cisco ACI Multi-Pod | 1 |
| Cisco ACI Multi-Site | 1 |
| Cisco ACI Virtual Edge | 1 |
| Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller | 1 |
| Cisco Cloud ACI | 1 |
| data center ACI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1590460 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco ACI Context triple: [Cisco Nexus switches, supportsTechnology, Cisco ACI]
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A.
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s integrated data center platform that combines computing, networking, and storage resources into a unified, centrally managed architecture for enterprise and cloud environments.
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B.
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
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C.
Cisco Catalyst switches
Cisco Catalyst switches are a family of enterprise-grade network switches from Cisco Systems designed for high-performance, secure, and scalable campus and data center networking.
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D.
Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT platform that provides centralized management for wireless, switching, security, and other network devices.
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E.
APIC
APIC is the commonly used acronym for the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court, an international treaty that defines the legal protections and benefits granted to the Court, its officials, and related personnel.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco ACI Target entity description: Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
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A.
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s integrated data center platform that combines computing, networking, and storage resources into a unified, centrally managed architecture for enterprise and cloud environments.
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B.
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
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C.
Cisco Catalyst switches
Cisco Catalyst switches are a family of enterprise-grade network switches from Cisco Systems designed for high-performance, secure, and scalable campus and data center networking.
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D.
Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT platform that provides centralized management for wireless, switching, security, and other network devices.
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E.
APIC
APIC is the commonly used acronym for the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court, an international treaty that defines the legal protections and benefits granted to the Court, its officials, and related personnel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (115)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data center networking platform
ⓘ
software-defined networking solution ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ACI ⓘ |
| cloudIntegration |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
Google Cloud ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud Platform
Azure ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Azure
|
| competesWith |
Arista CloudVision
ⓘ
Juniper Contrail ⓘ VMware NSX ⓘ |
| component |
APIC cluster
ⓘ
Cisco ACI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
Cisco Nexus switches ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
leaf switches ⓘ spine switches ⓘ |
| configurationModel | declarative policy model ⓘ |
| controlPlane | APIC policy distribution ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
application-centric policy model
ⓘ
centralized management ⓘ intent-based networking ⓘ policy-based automation ⓘ |
| dataPlane | Nexus 9000 leaf-spine fabric ⓘ |
| deploymentModel |
multi-cloud networking
ⓘ
multi-site data center ⓘ on-premises data center ⓘ remote leaf deployment ⓘ |
| designGoal |
enable application-centric policies
ⓘ
enable automation ⓘ improve agility ⓘ provide consistent policy across physical and virtual workloads ⓘ simplify data center network operations ⓘ support multi-cloud connectivity ⓘ |
| developer | Cisco Systems ⓘ |
| documentation |
Cisco ACI best practices
ⓘ
Cisco ACI configuration guides ⓘ Cisco ACI design guides ⓘ |
| feature |
SPAN and ERSPAN
ⓘ
anycast gateway ⓘ centralized policy management ⓘ dynamic path selection ⓘ endpoint tracking ⓘ fabric discovery and provisioning ⓘ fabric-wide policy enforcement ⓘ fault detection and correlation ⓘ health scores and telemetry ⓘ integrated DHCP relay ⓘ integrated L4-L7 service insertion ⓘ inter-tenant isolation ⓘ intra-tenant isolation ⓘ multi-tenancy ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ zero-touch fabric deployment ⓘ |
| fullName |
Cisco ACI
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
|
| hasVariant |
Cisco ACI
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco ACI Multi-Pod
Cisco ACI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco ACI Multi-Site
Cisco ACI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco ACI Virtual Edge
Cisco ACI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Cloud ACI
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| integratesWith |
Cisco Intersight
ⓘ
Cisco Nexus Dashboard ⓘ Cisco Tetration (Secure Workload) ⓘ Cisco UCS ⓘ third-party L4-L7 devices ⓘ |
| introducedWith |
Cisco Nexus switches
ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
|
| keyAbstraction |
Application Profile
ⓘ
Bridge Domain ⓘ Contract ⓘ Endpoint Group ⓘ Filter ⓘ L3Out ⓘ Service Graph ⓘ Tenant ⓘ VRF ⓘ |
| licenseModel |
feature-based licensing
ⓘ
software licenses ⓘ |
| managementInterface |
CLI
ⓘ
REST API ⓘ web-based GUI ⓘ |
| managementPlane | Application Policy Infrastructure Controller ⓘ |
| market |
enterprise data centers
ⓘ
service provider data centers ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
contract-based access control
ⓘ
integration with firewalls ⓘ integration with intrusion prevention systems ⓘ microsegmentation ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ whitelist policy model ⓘ |
| supports |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ JSON ⓘ Kubernetes integration ⓘ L2 networking ⓘ L3 networking ⓘ Microsoft Hyper-V integration ⓘ OpenStack integration ⓘ QoS policies ⓘ REST API ⓘ Red Hat OpenShift integration ⓘ VMware NSX integration ⓘ VMware vSphere integration ⓘ VXLAN ⓘ XML ⓘ bare-metal servers ⓘ containers ⓘ microsegmentation ⓘ multi-tenant segmentation ⓘ network automation APIs ⓘ network virtualization ⓘ overlay networks ⓘ service chaining ⓘ software-defined networking ⓘ virtual machines ⓘ |
| topology | leaf-spine architecture ⓘ |
| usesModel |
contract-based communication model
ⓘ
endpoint group model ⓘ policy-driven fabric model ⓘ tenant model ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cisco ACI Description of subject: Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
Referenced by (13)
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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
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