The Nexus 7000 beats competitors including Force 10, EMC, Foundry, Brocade and Juniper in terms of performance, resources and intellectual property.
The New York Times
John Markoff January 28, 2008, Cisco to Sell Faster Switch for Flood of Remote Data
Industry analysts said that the Nexus product line…is expected to put new pressure on competitors like Juniper Networks, Force10 Networks and Brocade Communications Systems.
A number of industry analysts said they were awaiting a similar announcement from Juniper Networks, but added that they thought it would fall short of the Cisco switch. Nick Lippis, editor of the Lippis Report, said, “I anticipate that Juniper will have port density, high performance and availability, but will not be able to match the intellectual property of Nexus.”
Byte and Switch
Mary Jander, January 28, 2008, Storage Must Wait for Cisco's Data Center Vision
Nick Lippis, analyst with Lippis Enterprises, says Cisco has "upped the performance to levels unseen. It's a new platform that will be with the industry for the better part of a decade." Nexus is already ahead of high-end Ethernet switch competitors Force10 and Foundry in terms of performance; even other large vendors like EMC will have trouble matching this particular feature set, he says.
"Cisco spent over a billion dollars over four years. No other company really has the resources and the intellectual property in the networking and storage spaces to match that," Lippis insists. "Cisco is unifying back-end, front-end, and backup switching in the data center."
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