“Where does he get those wonderful toys?”

brian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:35:17 +0000

Nexus 5000

I hope you got that Joker reference in the title…It is hard to concentrate when you have this sitting on your desk. The NX-OS based Nexus 5000/2000’s just arrived and I’m pretty excited to see the new things Cisco is implementing with their switch fabric. This unit has a 1Tb/sec back plane and has 10Gb ports like crazy. If I could get my hands on the Viprion we would really have a good lab to play with. I’m still editing and working on the 9.1-9.4 upgrade guide as well as installing a 10.x code base on one of my lab units, but I had to share this. I am still baffled that it has a HDMI port for the “fabric extender” pictured on the 2000 (top unit) on far left. In order to get one of these bad boys you pretty much have to let this guy talk to your Cisco rep (picture cracks me up too)

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“Where does he get those wonderful toys?”