[c-nsp] Nexus 7000

[Tim Stevenson]

At 02:41 PM 1/29/2008 +0900, Daniel Hooper observed:
>"Microsoft is currently performing rigorous testing of the Nexus 7000
>Series for security, manageability and performance in a lab environment"
>
>I doubt Microsoft would be doing any type of WAN/mpls/backbone testing
>on it, just from the small amount of information available it looks to
>be good for combining your SAN switch fabrics with your lan/data switch
>fabric

The platform is positioned to do just that, in time - ie once FCoE 
standards are complete. Make no mistake please, at initial ship, the 
linecards are standard Ethernet for data center L2/L3 switching.

>  ... does this just seem like a bad idea to anyone else?

Kind of like voip?

Tim


>Cheerio
>
>-Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Geyer, Nick
>Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 1:20 PM
>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 7000
>
>The documentation out for NX-OS shows support for most IP routing
>solutions around today. It will be interesting to see more doco from
>Cisco on what this box can actually do and find out where Cisco plans to
>slot it into the family tree (perhaps the illegitimate child of Mr.
>CRS-1 and Mrs. 7609?)
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tom Storey
>Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 3:03 PM
>To: Pete Templin
>Cc: mack; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 7000
>
>
> > Call me crazy, but I got no sense that this new thingy can route, from
> > the little video or any of the data sheets.  They'd be spouting the
>pps
> > of IPv6 hardware routing, if it could.
>
>I saw mention of VRFs, OSPFv2 and 3, and mentions of IPv4 and IPv6 among
>the existing documents, but no mention of PPS or anything else routing
>related.
>
>Hopefully more docos are on the way which will detail all of this.
>
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Technical Marketing Engineer, Data Center BU
Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
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