On 2/4/2011 10:22 AM, Mack McBride wrote:
The most comparable for the 7600 is the ASR 9K but the cost differential is
significant.
The Nexus 7000 is supposed to replace the 6500 for an aggregation switch but
the cost
On a gigabit basis, the N7K is cheaper and has many more working
enterprise features (ISSU, troubleshooting tools, netflow, etc) that
most shops would appreciate over the 6500.
and other issues (bugs and lack of XL card) has slowed adoption.
As for bugs, it's like any Cisco product/software these days. Just plan
to reduce risk as much as possible. I think we've all seen some
surprisingly horrible bugs on the "mature" 6500 platform. How's modular
and real ISSU working out there?
XL cards are now standard/priced the same as the non-XL. Done. But,
what is your requirement for such large tables?
The other issues are getting sorted out which should help the 7K.
Such as?
Cisco seems committed to the 6500 as a services platform.
Yes, it appears they have extended the platform. Sort of like the SUP2T
release (for 3-4 years). From my field chats, most concerns have been
centered around PoE (and lack thereof on Nexus).
So it is likely to be around for a long time.
Yeah it will be a good legacy platform moving forward and has it's place.
Our company tends to stay away from the bleeding edge so we are still using the
6500/7600.
The N7K is 3 years old this year. Hardly what I'd call bleeding edge in
technology. In 3 years your servers went through 2 CPU updates.
tv
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