Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k
Whatever happened to Infiniband…that kind of died away huh?
On Jan 30, 2008 12:20 AM, Hoogen wrote: > The first box kind of ships only after 6 months. Testing is going on I > believe. What i think the OS is based on Linux, but as usual should have > “Cisco CLI” It is definitely not a replacement to 6500, since 6500 does a > lot of service module stuff too and the box is very flexible and proven. > This is primarily for consolidating SAN and LAN visualization. I think 1GE > is what most servers i mean at least 80% of servers use so there is > sometime before this gets adopted to 10GB and more like 40GB. Probably SAN > side more helpful. But Cisco I think announced this probably to offset > Juniper’s announcement. After all Juniper pulled off something like IBM > partnership’s. They called it CAT 6K killer, but I guess thats to much to > compare it with, when you think 6500 is the most successful product ever in > any company’s history 20 billion dollar business from this box is amazing. > > 75K u might get the bare minimum…Can’t be that cheap. > > -Hoogen > > a > > On Jan 29, 2008 1:43 AM, Salau, Yemi wrote: > > > What do you guys think of Nexus 7000 series to be unveiled by Cisco? > > > > The Cisco NX-OS that drives it, has anyone used it before, is it anymuch > > different to Cisco-IOS and CatOS? $75k sounds kind a cheap to me, for a > > technology that delivers 10GbE optimized switching platform that can > > scale up to 40GbE and 100GbE when available! > > > > NO doubt this will target the Data Centre Market and promises to deliver > > up to 15TbE some day! > > > > Many Thanks > > > > Yemi Salau > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Subscription information may be found at: > > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
























