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

[Chris Stand]

My employer has about a dozen 9396s, they make great devices for routing
and fex connections.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM, <cisco-nsp-request at puck.nether.net> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:54:43 +0000
> From: Mack McBride <mack.mcbride at viawest.com>
> To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com>, 'Laurent Dumont'
>         <ldumont at coldnorthadmin.com>, "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net"
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> 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.
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> 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
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> This thread and the video might be interesting and relevant:
> http://markmail.org/thread/crgxdtqsbegf72ah
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> Frank
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> 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
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> 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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