I'm thinking about buying some old Cisco routers to mess around with as I prepare for my CCNP exams. I have a fairly cheap option on a Cisco 7000 & AGS+ (both are fairly well populated).

Cisco Systems today took the wraps off its new Nexus 7000 switch, which is designed to help data centers virtualize store, processing and other functions, and starts at $75,000.

Nexus 7000 gross margins increased two points from the fourth quarter of Cisco’s 2011 fiscal year to the first quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, while those on the Nexus 2000, 3000, 4000 and 5000 ...

Competing against products like the 3560/3750 or the 4900 series from Cisco or Wirespeed 1G with 4 10Gb uplinks like the S series from Force10 is going to be hard, unless you are an all Juniper shop.

Bringing its installed base of Nexus 2000, 3000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 switch and ASR 9000 router customers over to the Nexus 9000 will be key to expanding that pipeline.

This latest deal means HDS will sell customers with older 7000 routers technology allowing them to connect to mainframes directly to their local area network through a Cisco interface card.

"What is new is the MPLS implementation." To deliver end-to-end IP and ATM QoS, the IGX 8450 supports the extension of ABR traffic management to Cisco 7000 Series routers.