Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released - Welcome to DataCenter 3.0

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.