Thus spake Antoine Monnier ([email protected]) on Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:59:01PM +0200: > Thanks Michele for sharing the feedback you received on this. > > > Our cisco sales rep is telling us that he has never heard of Nexus used as > a campus distribution-layer and is trying to convince us that that Catalyst > 6807 is the right choice (instead of Nexus 56128P), even though we would > get less 10Gig port-density, 1:2 oversubscription, 5x more RU used, at > least twice the power consumption, etc... and all of this for twice the > price!
We have nexus 5k's and 7k's at the distribution layer for exactly these reasons (well, and cat6.8k wasn't available at the time). Only downside may be anemic buffering, but we keep a keen eye on packet loss. Dale _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
