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Will Cisco’s 'Big Switch' Provoke a New Technology War?

The Nexus 7000 is the Cat 6500 successor. For now I think it will be sold as such; it has the faster re-architected fabric and a more extensible software architecture. Now, the Cat 6500 is one of the most successful products in networking history. Penetrating that market and getting people to re-focus on network virtualization will probably take longer than the sanguine estimates in this article. It remains to be seen how well users will accept having to learn yet another new command line. With enough value-add benefits, like some of the kinds of things discussed in this article, Nexus should have a good 10-15-year run. No one ever got fired for buying Cisco, Juniper and Foundry not excepted.