[c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

Dale W. Carder dwcarder at wisc.edu
Thu Jun 27 08:38:56 EDT 2013


Thus spake Jeff Kell (jeff-kell at utc.edu) on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:19:31PM -0400:
> On 6/26/2013 11:10 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > It just seems like the new 6k is positioned to poach prospective
> > customers from the (arguably) higher-margin Nexus 7k product line.
> 
> Now that you mention the "N-word" I have to ask (as we're looking into a
> deployment)...  how much of it is ready for prime time, and feature
> compatible with the Catalysts?

This clearly depends on the features you use today on the c6k.  We did a
cpoc and found that the n7k w/ m2's did everything we do today with c6k
and then some.  YMMV, but test, test, test.

Dale



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