[c-nsp] Cisco's new 4500-X 10G Aggregation Switches

[Jared Mauch]

On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:03:10AM -0800, Sachin Gupta (sagupta) wrote:
>> The pricing has been finalized. The 4500-X comes in following configs
>> (with one power supply):
>> 
>> All list price:
>> 16p SFP+ is $24k (capable of 64k routes)
>> 24p SFP+ is $32k (capable of 64k routes)
>> 32p SFP+ is $40k (capable of 256k routes)
>> 40p SFP+ is $48k (capable of 256k routes)
>> 2nd Power Supply is $2k
>> IP Base is default, full routing comes in Enterprise Services license
>> which is $10k
> 
> What about IPv6?
> 
>  - reasonably full support at FCS?
>  - extra license?
>  - "hardware cannot do that" caveats?

Nobody would ship hardware that doesn't do IPv6 in 2012, nearly 8 months after world IPv6 day, and only a few short weeks before the full-launch.

Personally, I'm also amazed cisco still sells non-gigabit switches in 2011/2012.  I thought they were a technology company.

- Jared