Cisco Updates Its High-end Switches to Offer 40GbE and 100GbE Capabilities
Cisco has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities, in a move aimed at datacentres and large campuses requiring heavy-duty bandwidth. A 40 GE option is...
View ArticleDoc Sharing: How to Migrate from Catalyst to Nexus?
How to migrate from a Catalyst-based data center to a Nexus-based data center? Are you still confused with layer 2 and Layer 3? Maybe the following document written by Jeremy Filliben can help you...
View ArticleCisco Delivers 100G at 3,000 km without Regeneration
Cisco announced its coherent 100 Gigabit (100G) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution, which exceeds 3,000 km in reach, without the need for complex Raman optical amplification...
View ArticleAnalysis: How to Choose the Right Cisco Switches for Your LAN?
Large and mid-size organizations or enterprises are entering another cycle of Local Area Network upgrades due to two recent technology changes. One is that 10Gb Ethernet are now standard connections on...
View ArticleCisco Nexus 5500: A Viable Core Switch for the Midsized Enterprise?
Mix of Nexus 5500 & Catalyst 6500? Hi there, Does Nexus 5500 series require a Nexus 7000 parent device? or it will be supported with Catalyst 6509? If this is the scenario : CAT6509 – Core Layer 3...
View ArticleIs Catalyst 6500 Supervisor 2T Your Upgrade Answer?
The Catalyst 6500 Supervisor 2T was first touted to resellers and customers in 2009 under NDA. Then suddenly in 2010 the chatter went quiet, and the Nexus 5000 arrived, soon followed by the Nexus 7000....
View ArticleCisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch
Campus vs. data center applications can determine which Cisco Ethernet switch to use These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. It is not enough for the network admin to say he...
View ArticleCisco Nexus 6000 Switches: High-Density, Compact Form Factor
Cisco unveiled the Cisco Nexus 6000, the world’s first 96-port, line rate 40-gigabit fixed form factor switch with Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 1-microsecond latency across all...
View ArticleDHCP Relay on the Nexus7000/NXOS Vs. IP Helper on the 6500/IoS
IP helper (now DHCP relay) works differently on the Nexus 7000 than on the Cisco 6500. The N7K imposes a VACL to filter local DHCP broadcast traffic, under the assumption that you’d be using DHCP relay...
View ArticleNexus 7000 and Catalyst 6500 Comparison Guide
Network engineers are always discussing the Nexus and Cisco Catalyst after Nexus 7000 was released. Some of them are accustomed to use the Cisco 6500 series, but those who are looking forward to Nexus...
View ArticleNexus 9000 vs. Nexus 7000
Cisco’s some customers care about the future of their existing investments in Cisco’s data center switches when Cisco introduced its new series of data center switches as part of its SDN-flavored...
View ArticleCisco Nexus Positioning: 2 and 3 Tier
Cisco Nexus product family is such a big data center switch family that includes Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 2000, Nexus 1000V and MDS 9000. New users may not know where each...
View ArticleCisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 Modular Switches, the Main Chassis
Cisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700, these modular switches deliver full NX-OS features and open-source programmable tools for software-defined deployments. Get high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit...
View ArticleCisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 Licensing
Before learning about the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 Licensing, you should know the main Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 chassis and Supervisor Modules. Read More: Cisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700...
View ArticleQuiz for Cisco Nexus Product Family & Evolution of Data Center Architecture
The Cisco Nexus product family offers a broad portfolio of LAN and SAN switching products, ranging from software switches that integrate with multiple types of hypervisors to hardware data center core...
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