[c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

[Nick Hilliard]

On 12/09/2013 18:30, Mark Mason wrote:
> I think the ticket is the N3K-C3064TQ-10GT [Nexus 3064-T, 48 10GBase-T and 4 QSFP+ ports]. Looks like it's still new and isn't quite available to be configured in the system and the price is pretty delicious.

$53,400 GPL, according to teh interwebs.  Nice money for porting NXOS to a
trident based box.

Nick

> From: aled.w.morris at googlemail.com [mailto:aled.w.morris at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Aled Morris
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:02 PM
> To: Mark Mason
> Cc: Oliver Garraux; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss
> 
> Well, when I said I thought the switches were equal, I wasn't referring to the price!
> 
> Cisco, always "reassuringly expensive" :-)
> 
> Aled
> 
> On 12 September 2013 17:57, Mark Mason <MMason at jackhenry.com<mailto:MMason at jackhenry.com>> wrote:
> Yea, the Nexus 6k lineup is quite a bit more expensive than the 3k lineup. The pricing and builds for the 3k's aren't too bad. Great input guys!
> 
> From: aled.w.morris at googlemail.com<mailto:aled.w.morris at googlemail.com> [mailto:aled.w.morris at googlemail.com<mailto:aled.w.morris at googlemail.com>] On Behalf Of Aled Morris
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> Cc: Oliver Garraux; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss
> 
> I don't have hands-on experience with them but I assumed that Cisco 6001T = Arista 7050T and Cisco 6001P = Arista 7050S
> 
> Aled
> 
> On 12 September 2013 17:46, Mark Mason <MMason at jackhenry.com<mailto:MMason at jackhenry.com>> wrote:
> Yea, actually just seeing that now! Might have a winner!
> 
> 
> From: Oliver Garraux [mailto:oliver at g.garraux.net<mailto:oliver at g.garraux.net>]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss
> 
> How is the Arista 7050 different than the Nexus 3064?  Cisco recently slashed the pricing on several of the 3064 models by quite a bit.  I'm not intimately familiar with Arista pricing, but the 3064's current list price isn't widely different than what I see for the Arista 7050 on a few sites.
> 
> Oliver
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk<mailto:aledm at qix.co.uk>> wrote:
> If you are brand-loyal to Cisco you might want to look at the Nexus 3000 or
> Nexus 6000 ranges.
> 
> Aled
> 
> 
> 
> On 12 September 2013 15:56, Mark Mason <MMason at jackhenry.com<mailto:MMason at jackhenry.com>> wrote:
> 
>> The Cisco product line seems to be missing an equivalent of the Arista
>> 7050 100Mb/1Gb/10GBase-T. Maybe taking the 4500x platform converting the 32
>> SFP ports to copper, and then expansion slot 4x40Gb ports then drop the
>> price 10k+ we might have a match. Thoughts NSP community?
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