Revenue just gets dumped into different BU buckets and each has its own comp plan for the sales reps. It matters to them because it affects their pocket books :)
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Blake Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote: > Cisco tries to tell us the same thing. We think it has a lot to do with the > fact they're competing with themselves campus vs datacenter, and this is a > much cheaper option with better scale. We are using 5672s and larger for > core / distro and cisco howeled about how its for datacenter and we should > use the 68s as well. > > -Blake > On Jun 12, 2014 10:38 AM, "Antoine Monnier" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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! > > > > Are there other people out there using Nexus (3x00 ? 5x00? 6x00 7x00?) at > > the distribution-layer of medium-sized campus? > > Medium-sized being about 60 access-layer closets with dual 10 Gig uplink > > each and a small server-farm. > > > > > > On the downside I hear that the "orphan port" scenario with vPC may be a > > pain in the back side? I still need to read the details of this. > > Is anyone running vPC at the distribution-layer of a campus environment? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Michele Bergonzoni <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Does anybody have success/horror stories about the [Nexus] 3064 or 3048 > > to > > >> > > >> share? If you email me in private, I can post an anonimized summary. > > >> > > > > > > I received two very helpful replies. > > > > > > One person told me about some new 3172PQ: "I am loving them to death". > > > This person is using them as L2, with vPC. > > > > > > One person is using the 3064X with OSPF, BGP VRRP and is happy with it. > > > This is very similar to what I am trying to do. > > > > > > I still feel a bit uneasy, but I think we will end up trusting the > > > datasheet. > > > > > > Cheers to all, > > > > > > Bergonz > > > > > > -- > > > Ing. Michele Bergonzoni - Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi S.p.a. > > > Phone:+39-051-6781926 e-mail: [email protected] > > > alt.advanced.networks.design.configure.operate > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
