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Cisco ACI is a tightly coupled policy-driven solution that integrates software and hardware. The hardware for Cisco ACI is based on the Cisco Nexus 9000 family of switches. The software and integration points for ACI include a few components, including Additional Data Center Pod, Data Center Policy Engine, and Non-Directly Attached Virtual and Physical Leaf Switches. ACI programmability feature enables to manage the ACI using Object Oriented data model and REST APIs. This feature operates as a single system at the fabric level, controlled by the centralized Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).