20th October 2011

Cisco announces new Nexus Switches

Cisco today announced their latest iteration of the Nexus coverged storage and data switches.

Network World have a good article covering the announcements

In summary:

• New switching fabric called imaginatively, “fabric-2” which scales to 550GB per slot – more than twice the thoughput on the original fabric.
• New Nexus 3016 which provides 16 ports of 40GB Ethernet.
• New Nexus 4048 – provides 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports plus 10GB uplinks
• Fabricpath support for the Nexus 5500 series providing multiple active layer 2 paths across a “top of rack” topology
• ASA 1000V firewall – Cisco’s first purely software based firewall – using the same underlying technology as the 1000V switch

Price points are said to be “competitive” – which for Nexus probably means “expensive”.

Barry Hesk