Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not too sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically.
Highlights of the Nexus 7000’s features are:
- 15 Terabit per second backplane
- Support for 40 and 100 gig ports in the future
- Separate control and data planes
- Link layer encryption
- Front to back airflow (FINALLY available in a non NEBS chassis)
- Lossless non blocking fabric (VOQ enabled)
- Fibre Channel, Infiniband, and Ethernet blades in one unified platform
- Cisco Data Center Network Manager (MDS Fabric Manager on steroids)
- Virtual Device Contexts (Network Systems virtualization, the next level past VRF route tags)
You can learn more about this switch in upcoming articles, and at Cisco’s product page.