Where Are All the Features for Nexus ? Or Is It Just Me ?

I wrote this in response to Omar Sultan at Cisco on ‘Why you want this switch ?

I was look­ing the NX-​​OS fea­ture nav­ig­ator today and NX-​​OS looks (cur­rently) like a sub­stan­tially feature-​​free plat­form — check out the NX-​​OS Feature Navigator and con­sider what is not lis­ted here.

A couple of other things that strike me as odd:

• NX-​​OS has a primary mar­ket­ing mes­sage that is based on tech­no­lo­gies that do not yet exist (FCoE) or tech­no­logy that only a few com­pan­ies care much about (10GB Ethernet), or intan­gible ele­ments like their new switch­ing fabric
• Waxing lyr­ic­ally about your ‘lights out sub-​​system’ smacks of des­per­a­tion because there are not any other fea­tures to talk about.
• NX-​​OS remains an unknown.
• I still believe that NX-​​OS has been released to put a foot­print in the space and slow down ven­ture cap­ital invest­ments. You never know, they might have pro­duced a product that could eat Cisco’s lunch.

Omar and Doug have a role in pro­mot­ing the Nexus 7000. Lets make sure that we don’t go over­board with the marki­tec­ture. I would appre­ci­ate if they could quiet down the mar­ket­ing so I can get some work done here. If another per­son comes up to me and asks whether I have seen the Nexus 7000 I am going to hit them with RITA.

As a long time vet­eran of many product releases, mar­ket announce­ments, plat­form announce­ments I remain deeply cyn­ical. In some movie, a pre­tend­ing per­son once said, “show me the money”. That’s what I want.

Postscript

I wrote more about the Nexus 7000 in a pre­vi­ous post­ing con­sid­er­ing whether it is suit­able for use today or tomorrow.

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