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Cisco will retire its Nexus 6000 switches in mid-2017. The company recently popped out a end-of-life notice for the switches, which were launched in 2013 as part of a push to encourage adoption of 40G Ethernet. These days Cisco is keener on 100G Ethernet, promising to sell you faster kit for the same price as 40G kit. With …

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  1. TwoWolves

    Costs

    Whenever I tell project managers how much 40G SFP cost they go pale and ask for 10G.

    It's not the cost of the switches that's killing adoption and remember you need them by the dozen.

    ... then there's 100G

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Costs

      Strangely the cost of 10G and 40G is significantly less when you mention to your Cisco vendor you're looking at alternatives.

      Arista and Dell/Force10 are high performance, low latency - and a fraction of the cost of Cisco tin.

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  2. PassiveSmoking

    I've... routed things you people wouldn't believe.

    Cat videos on fire off the YouTube of Orion.

    I've watches XXX-beams glittering in the darkness by the Pornhouser Gateway.

    All those packets will be lost in time, like sketchy Twitter posts by politicians.

    Time to kill -9.

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    Rebranding

    They’re not geting rid of the Nexus 6k — they have been rebranded and they now sit in the 5k series.

    I believe 6001 is the 5672UP and the 6004 is the 5696Q

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