Cisco Nexus 5000 Wins InfoWorld 2009 "Technology of the Year" for Best Datacenter Fabric Switch:

“The Cisco Nexus 5000 brings a completely new technology to network consolidation that blends together Ethernet and FC transport with a single protocol fluent in both languages. That combination makes the switch a flexible player that can be deployed in both servers and storage consolidation projects. With a price that drubs the competition, a small 2U form factor, great scalability, and unrivaled speed and latency, the Nexus 5000 is poised to take on all challengers in the space.” –InfoWorld

In addition, Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Wins "Best of Interop" for Best Datacenter Fabric Switch:

“The Nexus 7000 isn’t as much of a leap forward in technology as much as it’s the data center switching platform you will be using for the next 10 years. The 7000 is built to scale with a 15 terabits per second back plane and supporting up to 512 10Gbps ports. Future modules are planned to support 40 and 100 Gbps. One of the newest enhancements is support for enhanced Ethernet where ports support both Ethernet and Fibre Channel with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) planned removing the need for separate switch fabrics for data and storage. The new operating system, IOS-NX is a module IOS allowing seamless upgrades to the OS and modules with zero down time. IOS-NX also supports virtual device contexts so problems in one virtual device won’t impact other virtual devices. The Nexus 7000 is clearly designed to address the needs of the data center today and tomorrow.” –Interop

Read more about Cisco’s Nexus data center switches here:

www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html

For more information about how to implement Cisco’s Nexus family of switches into your datacenter, please call your GreenPages account manager at 800-989-2989.

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