Cisco Nexus 7000 tested by Microsoft and Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Customers experimenting with Nexus...

Forbes
Andy Greenberg, January 28, 2008, Cisco's Big Switch

The Nexus already has several unofficial customers: Microsoft and the Lawrence Livermore National Labs are already experimenting with data centers built around the Nexus.

Computer World
Matt Hamblen, January 28, 2008, Cisco unveils the Nexus 7000, its biggest switch ever

Doug East, high-performance computing manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said…that the Nexus 7000 has great potential for scientific computing. With its scalability, enhanced security and virtualization and its 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet ports, East said the Nexus 7000 could be applicable for Lawrence Livermore.