RE: Nexus 5010 as router?

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:05:28, Muhammad Anser Khan wrote:
> Cc: Ian Blaney; Marc La Porte; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Nexus 5010 as router?
>
> Dears,
>
> I heard that when we enable L3 routing in Nexus 55xx, the throughput
> will decrease to 160Gbps for all the switching (FCoE) & routing.
>
> Is it true?

Switching is still done at the cross bar, so 960/1920 gbps depending on 48/96 model still apply for local switching. The 160 gbps applies to the layer 3 forwarding engine only, it's basically a 16-port portchannel.

https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-24910

Slide 17, dual attached VPC+ is supported as of 5.1.3.

-ryan

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Received on Thu Mar 08 2012 - 15:59:42 ART