Cisco lost another long-term top executive today. Jayshree Ullal, SVP, Data Center, Switching & Services announced on her blog that she had resigned. She wrote:
"With mixed feelings and much introspection I have come to my decision to leave Cisco after 15 great and memorable years. My loyalty and affection to Cisco, CEO John Chambers and my teams made this a very difficult and lengthy decision process."
The exit comes as an industry surprise. Ullal was just featured as a keynote speaker at the Interop in April. Ullal was the subject of many Network World articles over the years. She was profiled in the 2005 Power Issue and was profiled by Brad Reese in his 08/20/2007 post: Jayshree Ullal: supreme commander of the Cisco Data Center 3.0 shock attack.
John McCool, one of Ullal's deputies, will take over Ullal's job, Bloomberg reports. Ullal's departure follows the December resignation of Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo and the exit of Mike Volpi, who left in February 2007. Stay tuned for more on Ullal's resignation from Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese.
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She left because she has
She left because she has integrity, and Cisco is fast becoming a company without integrity. The "Data Center" eh? I have an idea...
When Juniper announces their EX switch series, lets prematurely announce Nexus in a panic, steer customers away from it so we can offload some 6500s in the short term, and then change gears 9-12 months from now and lead them to an upgrade to the Nexus... when it is actually ready for delivery.
Cisco is garbage. Who really wants to deploy first-gen software or hardware from Cisco? Anyone else besides me lost every other weekend in the last year due to bugs and caveats buried in release notes? Can Cisco find a way to completely break NAT or CEF in every IOS release? I think they can!
Thats what you get for outsourcing all of your development to the lowest bidder!
Bring on JUNOS!
Agreed. The nexus is just a
Agreed. The nexus is just a fatter version of the 6500. A couple more bells and whistles, but really look at it. Its a guaranteed revenue stream for Cisco. They are already talking about the potential for this box and how it will have the same advantages as the 6500 in terms of investing dollars into it and incrementally upgrading it.
So you buy it crippled now and as faster parts come out, you need to upgrade. And I can already see how this is going to go. you buy fabric modules and a sup blade now with the line cards that are available now. But then you want the 2:1 oversubscribed 10gig card, and that means new fabric modules which... BTW... are not compatible with the 1st-run 10/100/1000 cards... so you have to buy new ones of those. Cisco is probably salivating at the potential money they are going to wrench from their customers in the upgrade path for this pile of bologne.
What is this about fcoe tuning on this box? Why does such a fast box need to be tuned for anything on the backplane? Can't it forward frames at line rate? If so then what is needed to be tuned?
I say no thanks. I'll wait for the EX-8200 from the big "J" or maybe just go MX.
Wow. you must know the Cisco roadmap more than Cisco.
Really, its just a fatter version of the 6500 ? How so?
Its a different hardware architecture, has features the 6500 doesnt have, has external/upgradable fabric modules that scale as you need them. Its a new purpose built OS.
Its downright SHOCKING that Cisco is a corporation that is interested in profits. How horrible they must provide returns to stock holders.
I still have a first gen 10/100 card working in a chassis with a new Sup720. The card is probably 9 years old now, yet still works. Show me some other vendor that has done this?
Are you sure that when you upgrade the 2:1 10G line card you need new fabric modules? I thought the ones that start out provide > 200G /slot ? Which implies that it will only require a card upgrade.
Obviously your line rate comment shows that you lack even the most basic understanding of how switching, Fiber Channel, or even network design works. Does 100% of your traffic stay on a single box? Is your network built so that every host talks to a different server? If not, then "line rate" gets you nothing and you better be able to handle congestion.
Keep waiting for the EX-8200, its still not out, and if its anything like their new stackable switches that I played with last month, they have a lot of work ahead of them.
Oh really? 9 years old huh?
Oh really? 9 years old huh? Guess that means your crossbar line cards are running in truncated mode? Good for you!!
Oh I forgot something
Oh I forgot something there...
Good news!! Cisco has brand new versions of your old line cards that will let your run all of your newer cards in compact mode, doubling your throughput!
Cisco is awaiting your order. Thank goodness you saved all that money on the chassis...
Have fun with your "non-forklift" upgrade.