Nexus 5600 and 6000 placement

[Bram Van den Bosch]

Dear all,

I am somewhat confused about the cisco nexus datacenter switches portfolio.

In particular on the product placement of the Nexus 5600 and 6000 series switches.

The 6000 came in 2 models, a 'smaller' 10G model and a 'large' 40G model

Now the 5600 has a lot of overlap with the 6000, the 5600 comes as well in a smaller 10G and larger 40G model, as well as a larger 10G and compact 40G model, so more choice here.

There are some obvious differences such as 2 more 40G ports on the 5672 and more modularity in the 5696Q.

When looking to features, it looks like they are quit the same, or did I overlook something?

But besides this, when do I place a 6000 and when a 5600?

Thanks for the responses!

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

If you need a high density 40 Gig device than 6004 will give you 8X12=96 40Gig wire speed ports. of course, each 40 Gig interface can be broken out to 4 10 Gig interfaces so it can be connected to existing 10 Gig FEXes. If you don't need this many ports than the smaller devices like 6001 and 5600 can work as well.  

HTH

[plustgraaf · Accepted solution]

The 5696Q was the 6004X.  They renamed it. 

For any new deployments, go with the 5600 line.  The 6001 has nothing the 5672 doesn't.

[Bram Van den Bosch]

Thanks for your answer.

I was thinking the same, but was somewhat confused, why they did develop the 5600 line and not continued on the 600 line :-)

I always hate it when there is too much overlap in products without key differentiators or a clear idea of what is the 'old' one and what is its new replacement, such as with the cat 3750 and 3850.