The Train Keeps Rolling…
So, a year ago, we kicked off a little party with the launch of the Nexus 7000 and NX-OS. As you can see, we have been busy year—we have fleshed out the Nexus portfolio with the Nexus 5000 and 1000V, established NX-OS as our pervasive data center OS and implemented some key technologies like DCE, FCoE and VN-Link.
But we are not done yet, so…...for you, our faithful followers, a little preview of some of the things we will announce a later today.
First of all, we are announcing the availability of 18-slot 7000 we initially discussed at the launch last year—for those of you wondering, that gives you 768 ports of GE or 512 ports of 10GbE in a physical chassis—that can still be segmented into up to 4 virtual switches using VDC technology. There are also some enhancements to NX-OS I’ll dig into in a later post.
We have also adding the Nexus 5010, a 1RU version of the Nexus 5020 for folks with lower server densities in their racks.
Last, and not least, we are announcing a new member of the family—the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender. This innovative new technology opens up all sorts of possibilities for server networking. Here is a pic for now—details to follow.
So, there is your sneak peek for now—more details to follow over the next few days.
Posted by Omar Sultan at 12:25AM PST
Douglas Gourlay Jan 27, 2009
Omar, Omar, Omar…. why do you persist in using GE for Gigabit Ethernet when you should use GbE like you do for 10GbE? Do you prefer 10GbE and thus rememebr the ‘b’ there? Just curious.
Good snapshot for folks though of what is coming!
Is the little white box at the end also named, “Fluffy”? or does it have some really neat customer value like ‘Zero Touch Installations?’ Just curious…
dg