Cisco launched two new data center switches on Monday: Nexus 6001, a 1RU ToR switch with the exact same port configuration as any other ToR switch on the market (48 x 10GE, 4 x 40GE usable as 16 x 10GE) and Nexus 6004, a monster spine switch with 96 40GE ports (it has the same bandwidth as Arista’s 7508 in a 4RU form factor and three times as many 40GE ports as Dell Force10 Z9000).
Apart from slightly higher port density, Nexus 6001 looks almost like Nexus 5548 (which has 48 10GE ports) or Nexus 3064X. So where’s the beef?
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