[c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

[Mack McBride]

If you are getting free loaner gear, I would suggest trying the new Nexus 9300 series with Nexus 2000 edge.
This creates a single switching infrastructure that appears as a single switch and better manageability than the stackables.
If you are going with a nexus 7004 as the core, you can do the same thing with the Nexus 2000 edge.
The latency with either one is still going to be well below measurable for gaming applications.

Mack McBride | Network Architect | ViaWest, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 10:19 AM
To: 'Laurent Dumont'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

This thread and the video might be interesting and relevant:
http://markmail.org/thread/crgxdtqsbegf72ah

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Laurent Dumont
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 2:08 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

Hi gents,

This email might seem a bit strange but bear with me. I am a member of a student club in Montreal named "Lan ETS". Every year, we organize on the biggest LAN event in North-America. We have an amazing partnership with Cisco where they allow us to request a fair amount of equipment so that we can create the best experience for our players.

This year, we are looking into some equipment that slightly out of our usual expertise. Usually, we target high-density stackable switches like a 3650/3750/3850 with 48 GigE and 4 SFP for our 10G core. We design our network around small "islands" of players all linked with each other through a 2x10G fiber network. Everyone is assigned a public address and we route everyone out through our core switch.

We were looking at either the Nexus 7004 chassis or the ASR 9004/9006 chassis as the core "switch". We would then use 48xGigE and 1x24 SFP+ line cards. Our actual port requirements and somewhat flexible but we do need at least 4x10G Fiber ports. And at least 48 GigE ports for players or access switches.

I'm also open to any suggestion within Cisco portfolio. Our needs are pretty standard and nothing extraordinary but we would like to use this opportunity in order to try new equipment and technologies that are usually only seem within ISP and large networks.

I appreciate any input on the matter!

Thank you

--
Laurent Dumont
https://coldnorthadmin.com

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