Archive for July, 2014
Nexus 7700 Part III: Breakout Interfaces
by Eric Stewart on Jul.15, 2014, under Networking, Technology
It is possible on the Nexus 7700 line, with certain optics, to break out 40Gb (and eventually 100Gb) to 4x10Gb interfaces (no one knows for sure what 100Gb will do – it will either be 8x10Gb or 10x10Gb). In this post I go over how $JOB is doing it (at least with the 40Gb) and what you need to be aware of. I do touch a little bit on the 100Gb breakout future and explain why we were looking to do it.
Nexus 7700 Part II: Racking a Cisco Nexus 7710
by Eric Stewart on Jul.08, 2014, under Networking, Technology
We racked our Nexus 7710 recently. Here’s some of the things you might need to know regarding getting this monster of a chassis into a rack.
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- Just another day at the office ... (@amyengineer)
- Networking Nerd (@networkingnerd)
- Fryguy's Blog (@fryguy_pa)
- Router Jockey (@tonhe)
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