Friday 17 January 2014

Nexus 5548 vs 6001


The Cisco Nexus 6001 provides higher port density, 48x10G & 4x40G, throughput, built in Layer 3 and 40G uplinks, although it only supports FCoE not Native Fiber Channel as the 5548UP.  The lack of FC on the 6001 Leaf switch however is not a big problem as I'm sure that Cisco will be building a 1/2/4/8 Gbps SAN Fiber Channel card for the 6004 allowing for converged networking in the future at the Spine.

Switch
Port Density
Forwarding Rate – Layer 2
Forwarding Rate – Layer 3
MAC Entries
USD List Price
Nexus 5548
(N5K-C5548UPM-B-S48)
48 SFP+
960 Gbps or 714.24 mpps
160 Gbps or 240 mpps
32,000
$42,000
Nexus 6001
(N6K-C6001-64P)
48 SFP+
4 QSFP+
Full Line rate
1.28 Tbps
256,000
$40,000