I don't agree with that statement (about rare to find big companies using Nexus). If you want 10 gig/40 gig (or 100 gig soon) your options are Cisco Nexus/Arista/Juniper QFX...some periphery devices as well, but the majority use one of those 3.
The merchant silicon based switches are pretty reasonably priced too. > On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > >> On 1/Mar/16 09:44, Pavel Odintsov wrote: >> But unfortunately they (Cisco Nexus) are pretty expensive and fairly >> new for DC and ISP market. It's pretty rare to find big company with >> switching backbone on Nexus switches. > > As opposed to? > > We are looking at the Nexus 7700 for 100Gbps core switching. > > Mark.
