[c-nsp] Nexus evolution

[William Cooper]

I'm still a bit confused... I've a pretty significant investment in
the 65/7600's; am I vested
in having a 3 tier architecture for the foreseeable future?

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Quinn Snyder <snyderq at gmail.com> wrote:
> we are deploying them in ~50 sites (mix of 7010, 7018). smattering of
> 5k/2248 when needed. using them in a collapsed core (agg, core vdc
> model) to replace existing 650x/sup720 cores.
> running light services (eigrp, qos, multicast) but using vpc to
> provide full redundancy between 45xx/65xx closets.
> seemed like a decent choice based on lifecycle and the release of 5.0
> for the 7k.  does what we need it to do and redundancy is there.
> still feels rough, but nowhere like it used to be.
>
> q.
>
> -= sent via iphone. please excuse spelling, grammar, and brevity =-
>
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:32, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
>
>> About a year ago there were some large-ish threads on the Nexus and a
>> couple people that had them in production had commented that there were
>> bugs that made them feel like test subjects, plus a various assortment
>> of unexpected limitations. How much has this changed over the last year?
>>
>> I do notice that the 2248TP fabric extender supports direct to 7k, and
>> the 22xxTP datasheet lists 100/1000 as supported speeds. I've been
>> researching a 7k as a candidate for a small colo datacenter, and to me
>> it seems like it's matured quite a bit (on paper, anyway).
>>
>> ~Seth
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