On Tuesday 10 November 2009 01:56:07 am Michael Balasko wrote: > All that being said we bought the 5K's to do 10G > distribution for our core so your mileage may vary > depending on needs.
To digress a little, we considered using the Nexus 5000 as a 10Gbps core aggregation switch, because it's way cheaper than the WS-X6704/8 line cards. But given that we'd be looking at adding more bandwidth in terms of N x 10Gbps, it made more sense to consider boxes that will scale to native 40Gbps and 100Gbps Ethernet interfaces. But, if a network is sure they'll never need anymore 10Gbps port density or large bandwidth to serve several downstream/upstream routers, the Nexus 5000 is definitely good value for 10Gbps Ethernet aggregation, current software issues aside, of course. Cheers, Mark.
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