On Monday 05 October 2009 11:06:31 pm Nick Hilliard wrote: > As I said, it depends on what you want to do. If you're > running just a couple of gigs and don't care about the > broadcast traffic problem or, say, are using them for L3 > traffic instead of L2, then they are great. Similarly, > the C65k+sup720 platform makes a really nice high > density, feature rich 1G platform. But if you're > planning to run lots of very high bandwidth stuff, it > might be better to use a different platform.
From Cisco, I think that if the goal is to aggregate n x 10Gbps Ethernet in abundance, for pure Layer 2 core switching over a limited distance (within the data centre), the Nexus 5000 might not be such a bad consideration. Preliminary pricing for this vs. a couple of WS-X6708 is comparable, and better in certain cases. YMMV. That said, it's also clear the 6500 isn't done yet, and it's still got a number of tricks up its sleeve. The question is, "Will you wait?". Cheers, Mark.
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