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Introduction
Series Overview
Intelligent Switching for the Integrated Network
Modular Switches
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches are Cisco's Flagship modular switching platform for data center Unified Fabric
deployments and for highly scalable campus core deployments. They are designed for exceptional 10 GE, 40 GE and
100 GE scalability with the industry's highest resiliency features and unmatched deployment flexibility for the data
center core, aggregation, access and campus core. It's industry leading NX-OS innovations and robust feature set
enable you to build the next generation network fabrics for both data centers and campus.
System Scalability:
operational continuity.
Designed for up to 15Tbps of
Network Consolidation and
switching capacity and high
Segmentation:
density 10 GE, 40 GE and 100 GE,
The Nexus 7000 offer numerous
the modular 10- or 18-slot chassis
industry leading innovations for
scales up to 768 1 GE ports or
converging and segmenting the
512 10 GE ports. Paired with the
network infrastructure, LANs and
Nexus 2000 Series, the Nexus 7000
WANs, significantly lowering TCO.
can scale to 32 fabric extenders,
Virtual Device Contexts (VDC),
supporting up to 1536 Gigabit
virtualize a single physical switch
Ethernet servers per Cisco Nexus
into multiple secure (PCI certified)
7000 chassis.
logical switches for infrastructure
consolidation. FCoE enables LAN
Network Scalability:
Beyond the system scalability, the
and SAN network consolidation from
Nexus 7000 offers several features
server to storage, reducing network
to scale the network itself. Cisco
sprawl while increasing network
FabricPath enables customers to
agility. Other key features that enable
massively scale Layer 2 networks
WAN and LAN segmentation and
up to 160+ Tbps without the use
convergence include MPLS, OTV,
of spanning-tree. For IP network
and VRF.
scalability, Location/ID Seperation
Virtualization and Cloud
Protocol (LISP), enables IP
Enablement:
portability and dynamic IP route
The Nexus 7000 and NX-OS
look-up significantly increasing the
innovations enable highly scalable
scalability of layer 3 IP networks.
virtualization deployments for
both intra and inter data center
Operational Continuity:
Designed from the ground up with
deployments, essentially allowing
the goal of delivering continuous
any workload, any location at
operations, the Nexus 7000 and
any scale. FabricPath enables a
NX-OS deliver a predictable and
highly scalable fabric for large
highly resilient switching platform
virtualized server deployments,
for the most demanding network
enabling workload mobility across
environments. With granular process
the data center. OTV and LISP
modularity, automatic fault isolation
allow seamless workload mobility
and containment, the industry's
between geographically separated
only true hitless In Service Software
data centers and also for bursting
Uprade (ISSU) capability and tightly
workloads to cloud providers.
integrated hardware resiliency
These and other features on the
features, the Nexus 7000 running
Nexus 7000 establish the foundation
NX-OS delivers the industry's
for large scale virtualization and
most reliable operating system for
cloud enablement.
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From edge to core, Cisco switches provide a complete range of services for all levels of
application intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, virtualization, non-stop
communications and operational manageability.
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
The Catalyst switching platform delivers the highest levels of services for every place in the network.
Industry-leading scalability (32 Gbps to 1.4 Tbps) and the broadest offering of interfaces provide excellent solutions for
the Wiring Closet, Distribution, Core, Data Center, Wide-Area Network routing, and Metro-Ethernet.
Integrated Security:
Unified Network Services:
H/W accelerated Flexible Packet
Highest PoE port density; enhanced
Matching, H/W-based Control Plane
PoE support for more than 15.4W
Policing; Integrated H/W NetFlow;
per port; wireless controller module,
802. 1 x enhancements; firewall,
advanced quality-of-service.
intrusion prevention and anomaly
Non-Stop Communications:
detection modules.
Sub-200 ms link recovery, Cisco
Virtualization:
IOS Software Modularity, In-Service
Scalability up to 1.4 Tbps with the
Software Upgrades.
Virtual Switching System 1440,
WAN Aggregation:
service modules support up to
Extensive choice of WAN interfaces
256 virtual instances, network
from DSO to OC-192, FE, GBE and
virtualization with MPLS, VRF-Lite
10 GBE; MPLS; VPLS; H-VPLS.
and GRE-Tunnels, multicast VPN.
Flexible Options:
Application Intelligence:
Modular 3-, 4-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot
H/W accelerated network based
chassis all support redundant
application recognition (NBAR),
supervisors; wide range of AC
URL Filtering, NetFlow for IPv6
and DC power supplies (950W
and multicast.
to 8700W).
Operational Manageability:
Highest Port Densities:
Smart Call Home, Adaptive Control
Up to 1, 1 52 10/100 ports, 770
Technology, In-Service Software
10/100/1000 ports, 820 SFP Gigabit
Upgrades; Encapsulated Remote
Ethernet ports, or 260 10 Gigabit
SPAN; Embedded Event Manager;
Ethernet (10 GBE) and 10G Base
Network Analysis Module.
T ports.
Flexible NetFlow:
First Catalyst to support Flexible
NetFlow with visibility into Layer 2, 3,
and 4 applications up to 128K flows.
Flexible NetFlow facilitates capacity
planning, anomaly and malware
detection and prevention, and
troubleshooting.
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