ACI Design Workshop
The ACI Design Workshop provides expert-led architectural planning for your Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, ensuring a robust and scalable data center network over a focused multi-day engagement.
- Expert Guidance: Access to senior network architects with deep Cisco ACI expertise.
- Scalable Design: Coverage for designing a data center network that supports future growth.
- Risk Mitigation: Protection against common ACI deployment pitfalls and configuration errors.
- Accelerated Planning: Entitlement to a structured, multi-day workshop focused on your specific needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The ACI Design Workshop is a professional service designed to provide businesses with expert-led architectural planning for their Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). This focused engagement ensures your data center network is designed for robustness, scalability, and optimal performance, addressing critical design considerations before implementation.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market companies who are planning or expanding their Cisco ACI deployments. It fits within the professional services tower, providing foundational design expertise to ensure successful infrastructure modernization and data center network builds.
- Expert-Led Sessions: Engage directly with senior architects specializing in Cisco ACI.
- Customized Architecture: Develop a data center network design tailored to your specific business requirements.
- Scalability Planning: Ensure your ACI deployment can accommodate future growth and evolving demands.
- Risk Reduction: Proactively identify and mitigate potential design flaws and operational challenges.
- Accelerated Time to Value: Streamline the design phase to speed up your overall ACI implementation.
This workshop is the ideal starting point for mid-market organizations seeking to build or optimize a high-performance, scalable Cisco ACI data center network.
What's Covered
Organizations deploying new Cisco ACI environments
Organizations deploying new Cisco ACI environments require a solid architectural foundation. This workshop ensures the design aligns with business objectives and future scalability needs, preventing costly rework.
Data center modernization, new infrastructure builds, network architecture planning, private cloud deployments
Businesses expanding existing Cisco ACI footprints
Businesses migrating or expanding their existing Cisco ACI footprints benefit from expert validation of their expansion plans. This service ensures new segments integrate seamlessly and maintain optimal performance.
Data center expansion, network segmentation, hybrid cloud integration, infrastructure upgrades
Teams managing complex data center networks
Teams managing complex data center networks can utilize this workshop to review and optimize their current ACI design. It helps identify areas for improvement in performance, security, and operational efficiency.
Network performance optimization, data center operations, IT infrastructure management, security posture enhancement
Companies seeking to modernize their data center fabric
Companies seeking to modernize their data center fabric with Cisco ACI need a clear roadmap and validated design. This workshop provides the expert insights necessary to achieve a successful modernization.
Infrastructure modernization, network fabric upgrades, digital transformation initiatives, technology roadmap development
Key Features
Expert-led Cisco ACI architectural sessions
Gain direct access to specialized knowledge, ensuring your ACI design incorporates best practices and avoids common pitfalls.
Customized data center network design
Receive an architecture tailored to your unique business requirements, supporting current needs and future growth.
Scalability and performance planning
Ensure your ACI deployment is built to handle increasing workloads and evolving business demands without performance degradation.
Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
Proactively identify potential design flaws and operational challenges, reducing the likelihood of costly errors and downtime.
Structured multi-day engagement
Accelerate the design phase with a focused, efficient workshop that delivers a clear architectural blueprint.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and secure data center networks, making expert ACI design crucial for meeting stringent compliance and performance demands.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on robust and scalable network infrastructure to support operational technology and IT convergence, where ACI design ensures reliable data flow and control.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, compliant, and highly available networks for patient data and critical systems, benefiting from ACI's design for segmentation and resilience.
Legal & Professional Services
Professional services firms require secure and efficient data center operations to manage sensitive client information, where a well-designed ACI fabric enhances both security and productivity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the primary outcome of the ACI Design Workshop?
The primary outcome is a professionally designed, scalable, and robust architecture for your Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, ready for implementation.
Who should attend the ACI Design Workshop?
Key stakeholders should include network architects, senior network engineers, IT managers, and any personnel directly involved in the design and implementation of the Cisco ACI environment.
What information should we prepare for the workshop?
Prepare documentation on your current network infrastructure, business requirements, future growth plans, and any specific challenges you aim to address with Cisco ACI.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.