[c-nsp] Is the Nexus 3064PQ usable ?

[Dale W. Carder]

Thus spake Antoine Monnier (mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com) on Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:59:01PM +0200:
> Thanks Michele for sharing the feedback you received on this.
> 
> 
> Our cisco sales rep is telling us that he has never heard of Nexus used as
> a campus distribution-layer and is trying to convince us that that Catalyst
> 6807 is the right choice (instead of Nexus 56128P), even though we would
> get less 10Gig port-density, 1:2 oversubscription, 5x more RU used, at
> least twice the power consumption, etc... and all of this for twice the
> price!

We have nexus 5k's and 7k's at the distribution layer for exactly these
reasons (well, and cat6.8k wasn't available at the time).

Only downside may be anemic buffering, but we keep a keen eye on packet loss.

Dale