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January 05, 2008

Network

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular data center-class switching system designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The Cisco Nexus architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second, with future availability of 40Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet and unified fabric I/O modules. This new platform is designed for exceptional scalability, continuous systems operation, and transport flexibility.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 VSS
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System is the latest from the Cisco Internet Switching Business Unit which is responsible for the Catalyst 6500 line of products.

Reviews

Cisco Catalyst 7000 Nexus Series Switches

System designed for investment protection with a 15 Tbps highly scalable fabric

Loosely Coupled Architecture to support long-term investment protection

Cisco Trusted Security for scalable security with link-layer encryption and security group access-control lists and role-based access control

Efficient physical and power design with front-to-back airflow

Zero-Service Disruption Architecture

Connectivity management processor (CMP) for integrated out-of-band management access

Graceful system operations to minimize the effect of upgrades and other software operations

Comprehensive XML API for total platform control

Built to support the emerging 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet standards

Flexible foundation for unified fabrics and unified I/O

Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs) to maximize software and hardware resource utilization while providing strong security and software fault isolation

Lossless fabric architecture to support the requirements of a unified fabric