---
title: "Humor inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture"
description: "A lighthearted look at Cisco's clever naming scheme in the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture, featuring a Bay Area-inspired play on words."
author: "Colin McNamara"
tags: ["cisco","networking","data-center","fcoe","humor"]
image: "https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/nexus-5000-architecture-humor/featured.png"
date: 2008-10-26
url: https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/nexus-5000-architecture-humor
---

# Humor inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture

I was putting together some presentations this morning and found a joke hidden inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture. Can you find it?

If you are from the San Francisco bay area you will recognize the towns of Los Altos and Los Gatos. In this diagram, the chipsets are Altos and Gatos. But where is the Los? Missing of course, because it is a ***Los*sless fabric**.

Yes, I LOL'ed

## Want to learn more?

[Nexus 5000 architecture - Building blocks of the unified fabric](http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/white_paper_c11-462176.html)