From: John Jones (acer0001@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 00:32:07 ARST
Infiniband is live and well. It just seems to be such a small part of
Cisco's business after purchasing Topsin. We had the Cisco IB reps here to
teach us about IB and their switches in blade server chassis just a few days
ago.
John
On Jan 30, 2008 3:29 PM, Gregory Gombas <ggombas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whatever happened to Infiniband...that kind of died away huh?
>
> On Jan 30, 2008 12:20 AM, 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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