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Network engineers put Cisco data center gear through its paces

Analysis
Feb 2, 20092 mins

If you want to know how the Cisco Nexus line really works in practice, here’s your chance to live vicariously through a group of network engineers who right now are testing out an end-to-end Nexus data center design. Cisco Subnet blogger Michael Morris leads a group of 10 engineers responsible for large-scale IT networking projects at a $3-billion high-tech company. His lead network engineer Kamal Vyas has begun a multi-part blog that takes us through the Nexus test data center that comprises of Nexus 7000 (Aggregation), 5000 and 2000 (Access) switches, plus services modules along with core switches using the flagship 6509s with ASRs at the WAN edge. Follow their adventures here.

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