Re: OT: Re: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k

From: Greg Wendel (gwendel@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 01:26:45 ARST


Darby,
We don't like to use bad words like that in polite conversation. :) Did
anyone else lose a weekend trying to upgrade one of those B@ST@RDS.

On Jan 30, 2008 8:58 PM, Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> _______________________________________________________________________
> > > Subscription information may be found at:
> > > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>

-- 
Gregory Wendel
Springfield VA, 22153


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Mar 01 2008 - 16:54:47 ARST