Re: Nexus 3K - 5K comparison

Millisecond and seconds latency? Try microsecond latency issues. If your feeds or execution is milliseconds late, your competitors have already eaten your lunch.

I agree with Joe and others about their comments.

Financial services HFT markets are a space that Cisco is only now seriously putting a products that competes with the other serious vendors in this space.

In kudos to Cisco, they are finally listening and paying attention to this section of the market.

On Mar29, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkot_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Totally Agreed with Joe - financial market people tends to buy Arista.
> There is a reason for that. Believe me or not, most institutes who are in
> share trading runs main application for pricebook update using multicast
> feed.
> If multicast feed gets disrupted for a few ms, it gets out of hands -
> network administrator might get fired for receiving feeds a few second
> later.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
> <joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:
>
>> Cisco does not make an "Ultra low latency" switch... many in the financial
>> engineering world are even "cautious" of those numbers for the Nexus...
>>
>> They do not compete in the ULL market with Arista, BNT and now Force10 and
>> Mellanox...
>>
>> Caveat Emptor...
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Bob Sinclair
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:17 AM
>> To: 'jack daniels'; 'Bogdan Sass'
>> Cc: 'Cisco certification'
>> Subject: RE: Nexus 3K - 5K comparison
>>
>> Hi Jack,
>>
>> Numbers I have are 2 usec for 5500 and 3.2 usec for 5010 and 5020.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jack daniels [mailto:jckdaniels12_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:52 AM
>> To: Bogdan Sass
>> Cc: bob_at_bobsinclair.net; Cisco certification
>> Subject: Re: Nexus 3K - 5K comparison
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When Datasheet says 1us of latency between two ports of 3K.
>> What is latency for 5K - Datasheet says it is low letancy switch.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Bogdan Sass <bogd.no.spam_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 22/03/2012 18:00, jack daniels wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just read FCOE is not supported on 3K , then how come it will be
>>>> used in DC.
>>>> 5K has FCOE.
>>>
>>> The 3K is a very specialized device, built for ultra-low-latency
>>> applications (trading and such). You are unlikely to find it in a
>> "regular"
>>> data center.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bogdan Sass
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