[c-nsp] Nexus 5K FCoE to FC breakout

[Tony Varriale]

Gen 1 already offers this. :)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Hedlund" <brhedlun at cisco.com>
To: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale at comcast.net>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 5K FCoE to FC breakout


> To your point, exceeding 4gbps per C-N-A is nice but doesn't top the list 
> of
> major benefits for Gen2.
> What does top the list is a single chip architecture providing a smaller
> size and lower power footprint, which also works nicely for blade server
> mezzanine form factors.
>
> Benefits for C-N-A's are largely centered around cost and efficiency
> optimizations, rather than performance optimizations.
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>
> On 4/17/09 12:20 PM, "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Even when they do come out, there's won't be tons of benefit yet.  Most 
>> of
>> the SANs I see today are 4gbps and are having a tough time justifying 
>> going
>> to 8.
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>
> Brad Hedlund
> bhedlund at cisco.com
> http://www.internetworkexpert.org
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