Re: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k

From: Muhammad Nasim (muhammad.nasim@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2008 - 04:09:26 ARST


Hi Experts

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On 31/01/2008, Colin McNamara <colin@2cups.com> wrote:
>
> Your statement implies that he 7000 will replace the 6500 in the short
> to medium term. From what I have seen the 7000 is being positioned to
> augment 6500 for example, in the core, with 6500's in an aggregation
> layer, providing service consolidation, load balancing services,
> firewalling, etc. (putting a service module in a 7000 is just a waste of
> bandwidth.. the service modules could never take full advantage of all
> that backplane speed).
>
> You will also see that the 6500 with 1440 is positioned to support VSL
> for your server farms, which is not something the 7000 is positioned
> for. Same thing with MPLS Carrie Supporting Carrie implementations deep
> into your datacenter, you will either have to have a sup7203b or higher
> to support mpls (though Nexus 7000 support vrf for extension).
>
> While the Nexus 7000 is a great device and will be the building block of
> enterprise datacenters for the next 15 years, it has its place in the
> datacenter, I see it as augmenting and enhancing Cisco's portfolio, not
> replacing or limiting the investment value in the 6500 line or
> datacenter switches.
>
> --
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> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:30 +0000, Salau, Yemi wrote:
> > Yea, I'm talking about the Chasis... No one can really tell how the
> > fully loaded chasis will worth ... Perhaps in the region of $200k
> >
> > I'm kind a more interested to know, apart from speed, how this will
> > achieve the same level of success the 6500 series enjoyed in the market.
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Yemi Salau
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> > From: Ronnie Angello [mailto:ronnie.angello@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:24 PM
> > To: mgreenlee@ipexpert.com
> > Cc: Salau, Yemi; Cisco certification
> > Subject: Re: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k
> >
> >
> > Yeah I read somewhere that it's more like $200k fully loaded.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 29, 2008 11:48 PM, <mgreenlee@ipexpert.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I haven't priced one, what does that number really include? Is
> > it just the
> > chassis? In general, the sups/linecards can crank up the price,
> > especially
> > with those types of interface speeds.
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
> > Behalf Of
> > Salau, Yemi
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:44 AM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Subject: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k
> >
> > 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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Muhammad Nasim
Network Engineer
Saudi Arabia


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