[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus 9300 for CORE

[Alexandr Gurbo]

Hello Robert,

I'm also review this switch almost in the same situation as you, but with futnctionality VxLAN-EVPN multihoming.
Also is not found answers on my questions.
As replacement, cisco presales engineers advice me NCS series, but the price in compare with Nexus is hight.

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:35:59 +0200
Robert Hass <robhass at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I need to build new core network. We have 6 site's in different cities. All
> cities are connected over 100G (provided by ISP).
> 
> I just thinking about N9K-C93180YC-FX and N9K-C93240YC-FX2 switches.
> - both supports 6 and 12 x 100G ports which I will use to inter-site
> connectivity (core links)
> - they supports MACsec on 100G - I will use it to encrypt my core links
> - each inter-city link is around 500 miles
> - most of downlink ports will be 10G and 1G
> 
> Any potential problems with this platform for that purpose ?
> Buffers are very low - just 40MB. Maybe I should look at Cisco NCS or other
> Cisco platform ?
> 
> I'm looking for some experience/recommendations.
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