[c-nsp] Nexus 7000

Tim Stevenson tstevens at cisco.com
Tue Jan 29 02:53:01 EST 2008


At 10:18 PM 1/28/2008 -0600, mack observed:
>The only mentions of routing:
>
>IP routing and multicast: Supports state-of-the-art implementations
>of IPv4 and IPv6 services, routing protocols, and IP Multicast 
>features to optimize and enhance data center scalability and 
>performance, reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating 
>expenses (OpEx)
>
>The OS documents list the various RFC supported including all of the 
>usual BGP and IPv6 RFCs.
>
>No mention of MPLS though which gives the CRS-1 a leg up on the 
>backbone routing market.

NO MPLS (though the h/w is capable). No immediate plans for it either.

Tim

>This looks like it kills for everything but SONET and MPLS.
>
>--
>LR Mack McBride
>Network Administrator
>Alpha Red, Inc.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Storey [mailto:tom at snnap.net]
> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:03 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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