Cisco Systems Inc. today announced the release of course the biggest switch in the company’s history – Nexus 7000, designed for use in data centers (DPC).
Supplies Nexus 7000 platform with the new advanced operating system, Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) will begin in the second quarter and the initial cost of the switch will be $ 75,000, said in an interview Dzhayshri Ullal (Jayshree Ullal), senior vice president of Technology Group, switching and security for data centers DSSTG (Datacenter Switching and Security Technology Group) of Cisco.
Cisco also unveiled a new architecture of the Trusted Security and additions to the family of switches, Catalyst, which helped the company to take over 70% of the world market switches.
More than 1,500 patents were used to create platforms Nexus, at a cost of Cisco more than $ 1 billion, it added Ullal.
According Ullal, the main distinctive features of the new Nexus 7000 platform are switching capacity up to 15 Tb / s per chassis and the presence of 512 Ethernet ports 10 Gb / s . In the future, Cisco will equip its switch ports with data transfer rates of 40 Gbit / s and 100 Gbit / s.
Autonomous platform is designed to ensure that all servers in the data center to all network resources and stored data.
Nexus 7000 is also the first platform designed with the use of architecture Cisco Trusted Security, announced in December last year. Cisco TrustSec integrates the functions of identification and recording the user’s role in the interests of security of the data center and provides trusted traffic segmentation without complex addressing models and unmanageable access control lists ACL.
addition to Cisco Nexus 7000 released a module for the Catalyst 6500 Series Switch with 16 Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, intended to reduce the energy consumption by 50%. The cost of this module has not been not been announced, we only know that the delivery is scheduled to begin in the second quarter.
Cisco also introduced a new switch Catalyst 6509 Enhanced Vertical Chassis, which supports data transfer rates of up to 80 Gbitt / s per slot. The switch is now available in retail stores, and the cost is $ 9,995. Another device, announced Cisco – new Catalyst Blade Switch, which will now handle eight switches as a single virtual switch. The cost of the device also has not been announced.
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