The Nexus 5000 and 7000 are not really desigend as WAN termination or ISP connectivity. The Cisco ASR or 7600 would most likely be a better platform for this requirement. The Nexus 5000 by design is a Layer 2 switch. The Nexus 7000 does have rich ...

The Cisco 3745 does support Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) of NMs and power supplies. However if it's not service disrupting I always power down. Please seehttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/interfaces/nm/hardware/installation/guide/...

I'll try to answer you questions as asked. Please see this document as wellhttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns304/net_design_guidance0900aecd8010e7a8.pdf CSM and CSS are very similar.Q1:1. should the CSS connect to distribution ...

So the following White Paper provides an overview of each option for SAN Extension which is what you are looking for. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/Opt_Prime_WP_0905_Final.pdf