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

[Sachin Gupta (sagupta)]

Full IPv6 support at FCS. What I mean by full is feature parity with
Supervisor Engine 7-E on Catalyst 4500 platform.

No extra license. Route tables do get cut in half if you're looking for
IPv6 totals.

Sachin

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  Sachin Gupta | Sr. Director, Product Management | Cisco


-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared at puck.nether.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:45 AM
To: Gert Doering
Cc: Sachin Gupta (sagupta); cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco's new 4500-X 10G Aggregation Switches


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