From: keith tokash (ktokash@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 02:49:12 ARST
I'm cautiously optimistic about this platform. We are pushing 10G port
density pretty far in our data centers, and in a year or so we'll be hurting.
Without something like this Cisco risks more customers jumping to other
vendors, even if they suck (you can just design most intelligence off of the
aggregation). That said I'm unclear as to what the new IOS-like thingy will
look like, and we're always swamped so no one has time to learn another cli.
Honestly I think we'll end up sticking with 6500s for the next few years and
upgrading the chassis as needed after the per-slot capacity goes to 80g. I
have to wait to see what our SE and rep can tell us about this platform and
its direction (targeting aggregation? Carrier/MPLS?). Right now I'm just
going off of the literature.
Also, I was in one of the optical sessions at Networkers in Anaheim and I
asked the speaker when we will see 40G optics. He said Cisco took a beating
on 10G by going pre-standardization, and this time they're waiting, so not
very soon. :( Also, the distance limitations on 100G were still atrocious,
can't remember exactly but it sounded like you would just use it to hook
redundant core switches together. If they were close enough. Hopefully the
laser brainiacs can give us a kilometer or two on 100G in the next few years.
With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with
science.
--Carl Sagan
> Subject: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:43:34 +0000
> From: yemi.salau@siemens.com
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>
> What do you guys think of Nexus 7000 series to be unveiled by Cisco?
>
> The Cisco NX-OS that drives it, has anyone used it before, is it anymuch
> different to Cisco-IOS and CatOS? $75k sounds kind a cheap to me, for a
> technology that delivers 10GbE optimized switching platform that can
> scale up to 40GbE and 100GbE when available!
>
> NO doubt this will target the Data Centre Market and promises to deliver
> up to 15TbE some day!
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Yemi Salau
>
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