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Cisco NX-OS is a highly-evolved modular operating system and experience in high-performance switching and routing. Cisco NX-OS finds its roots in the Cisco SAN-OS operating system used worldwide in business-critical loss-intolerant SAN networks. As a direct result of having been deployed and evolving from nearly a decade in the extremely critical storage area networking space, NX-OS can deliver the performance, reliability, and lifecycle expected in the data center.