[c-nsp] 100G Switch

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Tim Stevenson wrote:

> We have (or will shortly - launched, but not shipping) -
> the Nexus 7000 has 230G per slot capacity. The initially
> shipping 10G card can leverage 80G of that, but the
> initially shipping fabric will scale to support much
> higher capacity LCs in the future, including 100G.

Does this mean Cisco are positioning the Nexus 7010 (and 
other forthcoming models in the series) as a replacement of 
the 6500 for a pure Layer 2 control plane application that 
is looking beyond 40Gbps/slot and/or 80Gbps/slot, e.g., 
high speed core Ethernet switching within a single site?

Mark.
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