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...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd [email protected] ; www.eintellegonetworks.com Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco - Cumulus Linux - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Skeeve, > > http://d2zmdbbm9feqrf.cloudfront.net/2014/anz/pdf/BRKDCT-3640.pdf will > likely answer your questions. Namely with 6 fabric modules installed in the > chassis, each line card slot can have up to 1.92Tbps forwarding bandwidth > in each direction. Each fabric module can provide the line card slot up to > 320 Gbps. Fabric modules have two Trident II ASICs. Each ASIC has 32x 40 > Gbps Hi-Gig2 interfaces. 4x 40 Gbps Hi-Gig2 interfaces from each ASIC (8 > total per fabric module = 320 Gbps) connect to each line card slot. > > The 16-slot chassis requires different fabric modules which have four > Trident II ASICs, to support 1.92 Tbps forwarding bandwidth per line card > slot across all slots. > > Hope this helps, > > Josh > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Skeeve Stevens < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just trying to understand the hardware requirements on a Nexus 9508... >> It >> is that time of the year when getting anything out of Cisco is slow >> (reasonable) and I thought I would ask the Cisco-NSP brain trust. >> >> You have the N9K-X9636PQ line card... which is 36 x 40Gb ports... >> non-blocking (the 1.5:1 sub model is N9K-X9536PQ). >> >> It says it needs 6 fabric modules for maximum bandwidth on the X9636PQ - >> for that one card - the X9536PQ only needs 3 FM's. >> >> But... the 9508 Chassis seems to only have capacity for 6 FMs... same with >> all of them actually. 9504 and 9516. >> >> Does this mean that only 1 x X9636PQ can actually work non-blocking in a >> whole 9508 Chassis? or two of the X9536PQ? >> >> So I could have a 8 slot chassis with one card in it and be non-blocking? >> Or.. being that a FM can do 8 x 40Gb links to a line card, then 6 will do >> 48 x 40Gb ports... so 36 on one card and 12 on another... assuming you >> could split it like that somehow. >> >> Or there is the N9K-X9432PQ - which seems to be linerate for > 200byte >> packets... (this seems like an odd card to make). >> >> So it sounds like a 9504 would make more sense as the 9508 would have >> wasted line card slots... even the 9504 will waste 2. >> >> Is this sound logic? >> >> >> ...Skeeve >> >> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd >> [email protected] ; www.eintellegonetworks.com >> >> Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve >> >> facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> >> linkedin.com/in/skeeve >> >> twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com >> >> >> The Experts Who The Experts Call >> Juniper - Cisco - Cumulus Linux - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/
