UCS express is a compact, all-in-one computing and networking system targeted at branch offices. UCS Express is built on the concept of a lean branch office which reduces the branch-office infrastructure footprint, equipment and operating costs, and management complexity.
The main components of UCS express are the ISR Generation2 series router and Services Ready Engine (SRE) multipurpose x86 blade servers. Cisco ISR G2 functions as a blade-server enclosure for SRE blade servers, which in themselves run branch office applications like DNS, DHCP, etc. The system comes with VMware vSphere Hypervisor for virtualization and CIMC Express for blade server management.
