On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote: > Cabling costs (tends to favor tor)
Concur. > Virtualization (layer-2 requirements, tends to favor eor) Disagree - how do you think EoR is better in this regard? > bisection bandwidth (tends to favor eor) Disagree again. > Racks (tends to favor tor since 1U is "free") Concur. > Redundancy (arguments on both sides, power, supervisor, links...) Concur. > 10Gb/sec server plans (and how that effects the other issues) Not an issue, given N5K and blade switches, IMHO. > Flexibility (tends to favor eor - any service at any port) Strongly disagree - service switches are the answer for this. > Unified fabric plans (currently in the Nexus line) Again, if you go N5K/N7K, this isn't an issue either way. > Cost (will depend on the eor/tor switch chosen, of course) Concur. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
