From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 23:58:03 ARST
Anyone remember the Cisco ICS 7750...
Hmmm...
How long ago was that fleeting memory?
Not every product from Cisco becomes an instant
success.
Not saying it won't do well either.
--- Hoogen <hoogen82@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first box kind of ships only after 6 months.
> Testing is going on I
> believe. What i think the OS is based on Linux, but
> as usual should have
> "Cisco CLI" It is definitely not a replacement to
> 6500, since 6500 does a
> lot of service module stuff too and the box is very
> flexible and proven.
> This is primarily for consolidating SAN and LAN
> visualization. I think 1GE
> is what most servers i mean at least 80% of servers
> use so there is
> sometime before this gets adopted to 10GB and more
> like 40GB. Probably SAN
> side more helpful. But Cisco I think announced this
> probably to offset
> Juniper's announcement. After all Juniper pulled off
> something like IBM
> partnership's. They called it CAT 6K killer, but I
> guess thats to much to
> compare it with, when you think 6500 is the most
> successful product ever in
> any company's history 20 billion dollar business
> from this box is amazing.
>
> 75K u might get the bare minimum...Can't be that
> cheap.
>
> -Hoogen
>
> a
> On Jan 29, 2008 1:43 AM, Salau, Yemi
> <yemi.salau@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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