N7K in Campus Core

Anoop Vetteth
Director, Product Management, Enterprise & DC Switching

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High Speed in Campus Deployments

Data
Center

Higher Speed Drivers

in Campus:

Service
Provider
40G LR4

Core

Campus B

Campus A

High-Speed Wireless
Broadband Access
HD Video Conferencing
Video On Demand
High-Performance Computing
Data Center Interconnect

40G/100G

40G LR4

According to IEEE:
Server I/O capacity doubles every
two years and network bandwidth
doubles every 18 months.

10G

40G

Catalyst 3K with 40G uplink

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2X

Simplified Positioning for FY17

Lead with Catalyst 3K for

Campus Aggregation and
Fixed Core

Lead with Catalyst 3K for

Campus Access

Catalyst 4500E for modular

access

Catalyst 2960X/L for low-end

access

Catalyst 6800 for specific agg

features

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Lead with Nexus 7K for Campus

Fabric, MPLS, Deep buffers
Lead with N9K for Packet Pushing
Core

Catalyst 6800 for customer

stickiness with Cat6K, and
1G/10G

3-tier Campus Positioning

Internet
/ WAN

Campus Core:
Nexus 7700:
IP Services: WCCP, MPLS, VPLS, LISP
Hardware: Buffering, TCAM Scale (FIB/ACL)
Nexus 9500:
High 40G & 100G Port density

Core
Aggregation
Access

Small Campus Core/Aggregation:

3850-Fiber 10G
3850-Fiber 40G/100G (Future)
Campus Access:
3850
AP18/28/3800 (WAVE2)

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Campus Fabric Platform Support

Internet / WAN

Fabric border-node

Fabric border-nodes Options:

-

Nexus 7700 with M3 + 7.2 NX-OS

ASR1000
ISR4K
CAT3800
Catalyst 6800 (Sup2T/6T)

Fabric Core/Agg Intermediate-nodes

Options:

Fabric Core Intermediate-nodes

Nexus 7700
CAT3850
Nexus 9500*
Catalyst 6800 (Sup2T/6T)
4500X

Fabric edge-nodes Options:

Fabric Aggregation Intermediate-node

Fabric edge-node:

CAT3650
CAT3850
CAT4500e (Sup8/Sup9)
AP18/28/3800 (WAVE2)
Lead platforms
Brownfield platforms

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* SD-Access underlay automation NOT supported on N9K with APIC-EM

DATA CENTER

N7K in Campus Better Design Options

Internet /
WAN

Internet /
WAN

Nexus
N7700
7700

N7700

Catalyst 3K
Catalyst 3K

N7700 as Campus Fabric Border

N7700 in Collapsed Core/Aggregation

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CAMPUS

Campus
Fabric

N7700 in Shared Core

Nexus 7K Modular Series

In EFT

NEW
Q2CY16

Nexus7700 M3 10G &

40G Modules

Large Table Size & Packet Buffers -

2M FIB (1M @ FCS), 128K ACL/QoS

384K MAC (128K @ FCS)

MACSEC 256-bit AES

Superset of all Features on previous M & F Cards

24x 40G QSFP Ports

125MB Buffer per 40G/port

Nexus 7700 M3 100G

Modules

Roadmap
2HCY17*

Next Generation

Target FCS
2HCY16

12x 100G QSFP28 Ports

375MB per 100G port

Nexus 7700 F4
Modules: 36x40GE
and 30x100GE
Fabric Modules
Fab3, recommended
for F4 Modules

Nexus7000 48p 10G,

& 24p 40G M3 Line Cards

48x 1/10G SFP+ Ports

48x 1/10G SFP+ Ports

31.25MB Buffer per 10G port

31.25MB Buffer per 10G port

24x 40G QSFP Ports

125MB Buffer per

40G/port

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* Concept Commit

Nexus 7700 F4* Line Card Comparison

Series / Modules

F3

M3

b/w per Slot

24x40GE
12x100GE
48x10GE
1.2T

24x40GE
12x100GE
48x10GE
1.2T

L2

64K

512K

512K

L3 (IPv4)

64K

2M

96K

ACL
LISP, MPLS,
VXLAN
L2-L2 Gateway

16K

128K

32K

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Max Density

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F4*
36x40GE
30x100GE
2.4T

Nexus7700 Economics EN Bundle* priced right for Campus

Available Now

+50%

$65,000

-18%

+20%

LAN Enterprise
License

M3 48p 10G

$15,000

$26,600

Port Density
(10/40/100G)
ACL
FIB (LPM) (v4/v6)
Features
Ingress Buffer Per port

OR

OR

M3 24p 40G

SDA
License

$75,000

$25,000

N77 NonN77
Bundle
Bundle
10G Economics for
Typical Config

Cat6807 Standard

N7706- M-Series

10G - 160
(80 ports line-rate)

10G 192
40G 96
100G 48
( All Line-rate)

64K

128K

N7706 Chassis

256K/128K

1M/512K
(2M/1M **Future)

1 unit of SUP2E

2 units of Power Supplies

MPLS, L2/L3 VPN

MPLS, L2**/L3 VPN

2 units of Fabric cards

1.2MB/10G port
2015

31.25MB / 10Gport
125MB/ 40Gport
350MB/
Cisco and/or its affiliates.
All 100Gport
rights reserved.

40G Economics for

Typical Config

EN Bundle : N7706-EN-B22S2E

Bundle Price GPL - $ 26,600 (USD)

Bundle Content:

Cisco Confidential
* *- Roadmap items for Future Sw Releases

Requires additional purchase M3 LC + Ent/SDA License