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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:01:00 AM | |
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New Nexus Family Additions and Catalyst Enhancements Help Customers Transform Data Centers and Adopt Virtualization BARCELONA, Spain (Cisco Networkers 2009) - January 27, 2009 - Responding to customers desires to transform their data centers into virtualized environments, Cisco today unveiled additions to the Cisco NexusTM Family of switches and enhancements to Cisco Catalyst products.. Cisco is introducing the Cisco Nexus 7018, Cisco Nexus 5010, and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders, adding to the Nexus Family of switches specifically designed for the stringent requirements of next-generation data centers. With the Nexus platform IT organizations can take advantage of a unified fabric and optimize for architectural changes such as virtualization, Web 2.0 applications, and cloud computing. Cisco technology reduces the barriers to integrated data center virtualization by delivering greater network awareness and transparency to virtualization. These new technologies are at the foundation of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision to deliver a unified fabric and unified computing. New Nexus Products and Catalyst 6500 Enhancements: * The new Cisco Nexus 7018 joins the Nexus 7000 Series with an 18-Slot Chassis that provides up to 16 I/O module slots supporting up to 512 10Gigabit Ethernet ports to meet the demands of the largest data center deployments. o Designed for the requirements of highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks in mission-critical data centers, the Cisco Nexus 7018 and Nexus 7010 are modular switches that are capable of delivering continuous system operation and virtualized, pervasive services. o The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series supports end-to-end data center connectivity, consolidating IP, storage, and interprocess communication (IPC) networks onto a single Ethernet fabric. o A new 48-port Gigabit Ethernet fiber line card also joins the Nexus family to support mixed Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments. Virtual Port Channels (VPC) also enable higher availability, large-scale virtual machine mobility, and higher bandwidth. o Improved data center energy efficiency - the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series uses power supplies with up to 90 percent efficiency. Fan modules in the chassis adjust to compensate for changing thermal characteristics, meaning less power is wasted as heat and more power is available for the system to use. * The new Cisco Nexus 5010 28-port switch is a one rack unit (RU) switch supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet (DCE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel, able to consolidate traffic from local area networks, storage area networks and server cluster onto a single unified fabric. o The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed for data center consolidation combined with strong investment protection, helping customers to transition to a unified fabric at their own pace while meeting stringent customer requirements for operational continuity, transport flexibility and scalability. o With a unified fabric, IT organizations can simplify cabling infrastructure, reduce the number of required adapters, lower costs, and reduce power consumption and their carbon footprint. * The new Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender helps IT managers cope with two key data center factors: increasing numbers of servers and increased demand for bandwidth from each server. o Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extenders connected to dual Cisco Nexus 5020 Switches can support up to 2,496 Gigabit Ethernet servers, greatly improving scalability of the access layer without increasing management points within the network. o Combining Cisco Nexus 2000 switches and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches provides a highly cost-effective access-layer strategy for Gigabit Ethernet and mixed Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet server environments. * Cisco Catalyst 6500 enhancements enable customers to use the Catalyst 6500 as a virtualized service node together with a Nexus core to secure and accelerate applications cost effectively. Other software enhancements include an In-Service-Software-Upgrade and support for long range integrated 10GbE optics reduce the time needed for planned network maintenance and facilitate virtual machine mobility across data centers. * Cisco Services has expanded its services offerings to support the new additions to the Cisco Nexus family, with the goal of helping customers realize the full potential of next-generation architecture. To purchase Cisco Products visit http://ciscoguard.com |