[c-nsp] Outbound drops on 6748

[Matthew Huff]

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches. They came out to compete with Arista in the HFT world, but are useful anywhere latency and/or bursting is an issue:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11541/index.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Hass [mailto:robhass at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:39 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Cc: Matthew Huff
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Outbound drops on 6748
> 
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Huff <mhuff at ox.com> wrote:
> > You are likely hitting microbursts. The traffic levels you state are measured over an
> interval (30 seconds minimum probably). During peak activity you can easy overrun the
> buffers on the 6748 if your upstream data is coming from > 1gb and/or multicast. Since the
> 6748 has the deepest buffer of any linecards of the 6500, you might have to look at an
> Arista or Cisco 30xx aggregation switch that can handle the microbursts.
> 
> Can you write which model of switch you mean writing 'Cisco 30xx
> aggregation switch' ?
> 
> Rob