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What the RISE Technology Can Do for You? …

Posted on January 26, 2016 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

RISE Simplifying Load balancers with Nexus Switches. RISE, not rise, the Remote Integrated Service Engine, is an industry first solution. It’s a technology that simplifies provisioning, out of box management of service appliances like load balancers, firewalls, network analysis modules.…

The Newer Cisco Nexus 7700 Switches

Posted on September 7, 2015 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

What’s the Cisco Nexus 7700 Series? As the Cisco Catalyst 6800 has the DNA of Catalyst 6500,the newer Cisco Nexus 7700 switch is the latest extension to the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series modular switches. It is a family of data…

Cisco Nexus 9500 Comparison-Chassis, Supervisors and Modules…

Posted on May 11, 2015 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series is the modular one in the big star family-Nexus 9000 Series Switches. (The other one is the fixed-9300 switches). The Nexus 9000 is Cisco’s new SDN master plan. The Nexus 9000 is a new series of…

Cisco Nexus 3100, Ready to Support VMware NSX?

Posted on October 9, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco’s latest switch (the 3000 series of the Nexus switches was upgraded recently by Cisco, called Nexus 3100 series) has added an interesting twist to the company’s battle royal with VMware over next-generation virtual networking and data center operations management.…

The RIGHT Cisco Data Center Switches for the Cloud

Posted on July 29, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco networking giant separated its data center and campus switch product lines five years ago, but even with the distinction between the Nexus data center and Catalyst campus switch series, cloud providers still have many options to choose from in…

How to Configure Cisco Nexus 5500 Port Profiles?

Posted on July 5, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

A Cisco Nexus port profile is a group of port configuration directives that can be applied to an interface via a single command. In this way, a network engineer can build a set of profiles appropriate to the environment, and…

Cisco Nexus Switches: Layer 2 Configuration Strategies

Posted on October 24, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The Nexus switch line, including Nexus 5000 and Nexus 7000 switches, provides various features and capabilities configuring a Layer 2 network. In the chapter “Layer 2 Support and Configurations,” from the book NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures by Kevin Corbin,…

Cisco’ Answer to SDN, Cisco ONE Introduced at Cisco Live

Posted on June 15, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco unveiled its strategy for delivering software-defined networking, describing its Open Network Environment Platform Kit (onePK) as a more comprehensive approach than the OpenFlow protocol or the OpenStack approaches by others. The ambitious Cisco Open Network Environment package, introduced at…