Nexus

Cisco Nexus 5000 announced Today

April 8th, 2008 • Brad Hedlund • 6 comments • Related • Filed Under

What is the new Cisco Nexus 5000? — The industry first switch to deliver unified server I/O, providing Fiber Channel and IP traffic over a single 10G Ethernet port to the server.  Nexus 5000 delivers very low latency wire speed lossless Ethernet service to the server.

A few words about Nexus 7000

March 30th, 2008 • Brad Hedlund • 8 comments • Related • Filed Under

If you are not familiar with the innovation in Cisco Nexus 7000 it’s easy to just dismiss it as “Cisco’s answer to Force10″. The reality is, the Nexus 7000 is much more than just a “me too” 10-gig switch to compete with likes of Force10, Foundry, Extreme, and others — Nexus is a complete technology leap beyond what any other switch vendor has to offer today.

Let’s hit on some of the many points that make Nexus 7000 unique and why this switch is in a league of its own…