Cisco released the next generation NCS core router

On November 21st, held a "core router Cisco" next generation conference in China, launched the Tlevel of NCS core router series, the products have been released in September this year. Butas recently in June, Cisco has just released the CRS family of the last product, the 400G corerouter CRS-X. First, Cisco released two - generation products so rapidly, the CRS family three product release interval was 6 years, 3 years.

The release of the NCS family consists of three products, NCS 2000, NCS 4000, NCS 6000,which supports single slot 100G, 400G, 5T capacity, programmability and virtualization support,can help telecom operators to accelerate the transition to SDN/NFV.

The Network Covergence System (NCS) is a set of systems aimed at the service-providernetwork so don 't get all excited about tying it to Insieme, the spin-in that' s developing a hugeswitch (or something) for the data center. Insieme 's launch is still pending, probably untilNovember, it now appears.

The NCS line, being introduced Tuesday, includes a few products:

The NCS 6000 is the aforementioned core router, shipping today with available 1 Tb/s cards(ten 100Gb/s interfaces) and an eventual capacity of 5 Tb/s per slot, Cisco claims. (LightReading broke the story about this system in June, based on a document that called it theCTR.)

The NCS 4000, a smaller box for positions closer to the network edge; it supports 400 Gb/s perslot. This one 's not shipping until the first half of 2014

The NCS 2000, which isn 't a router at all but is part of the optical network (a reconfigurableoptical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM), if you have to know It s shipping today.').

The company said its Network Monitor tool can identify more than 1700 applications for in-depthanalysis by performing deep-packet inspection, and uses a variety of classification methods todetermine the true identity of the application and detect potentially damaging suspicious datatransfers, network usage policy violations and advanced attacks.

Network Monitor also captures full Layer 2 through 7 packet headers and payloads from eachsession for a complete record of network activity, as well as packet metadata with the SmartFlowfeature, which can deliver a real-time data feed to LogRhythm SIEM.

Cisco is using the NCS 6000 and 4000 as the vanguard in the company 's strategy for SDN andNFV in the carrier network. You can think of it as Cisco extending the fabric beyond the datacenter, something that large carriers are interested in seeing, says Ray Mota, an analyst withACG Research.

Cisco is not yet announcing any ready-made applications to run on the nPower X1, nor isitannouncing any programming services to help service providers create

applications.

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Cisco 2960-S: Problems of Network Issues with Linux Bonding

Cisco 2960-S: Problems of Network Issues with Linux Bonding

I have an environment that I am having some networking issues with.  Major packet loss and multiple mac addresses on arp replies.  My current thought is that it is related to configuration settings of the bonds and the configuration of the cisco switches.  Possibly an issue with vlans and/or etherchannel.  All of which I am unfamiliar with.

I'm sure you will want more information, but to start, please see the configs here:

Server (Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l):

/etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet manual

auto eth1

iface eth1 inet manual

auto eth2

iface eth2 inet manual

auto eth3

iface eth3 inet manual

auto eth4

iface eth4 inet manual

auto eth5

iface eth5 inet manual

auto bond0

iface bond0 inet static

        address 10.1.4.15

        netmask 255.255.0.0

        network 10.1.0.0

        broadcast 10.1.255.255

        gateway 10.1.1.1

        bond_mode 802.3ad

        bond_miimon 100

        bond_downdelay 200

        bond_updelay 200

        slaves eth4 eth5

auto bond1

iface bond1 inet manual

        bond_mode 802.3ad

        bond_miimon 100

        bond_downdelay 200

        bond_updelay 200

        slaves eth2 eth3

auto br0

iface br0 inet manual

        #bridge_ports bond1

        #bridge_stp off

        #bridge_fd 0

        #bridge_maxwait 0

        pre-up ip link set bond1 down

        pre-up brctl addbr br0

        pre-up brctl addif br0 bond1

        pre-up ip link set bond1 up

        pre-up ip link set br0 up

        post-down ip link set br0 down

        post-down brctl delbr br0

C2960S-STACK (four Cisco 2960S with fiber interconnection)

Current config:

***#sh conf

Using 6326 out of 524288 bytes

version 12.2

no service pad

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

no service password-encryption

hostname ***

boot-start-marker

boot-end-marker

enable secret 5 ***

enable password ***

no aaa new-model

switch 1 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l

switch 2 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l

switch 3 provision ws-c2960s-48ts-l

crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-1561874560

 enrollment selfsigned

 subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-1561874560

 revocation-check none

 rsakeypair TP-self-signed-1561874560

crypto pki certificate chain TP-self-signed-1561874560

 certificate self-signed 01 nvram:IOS-Self-Sig#3030.cer

spanning-tree mode pvst

spanning-tree extend system-id

vlan internal allocation policy ascending

interface FastEthernet0

 no ip address

interface Vlan1

 no ip address

 shutdown

!

ip http server

ip http secure-server

!

line con 0

line vty 0 4

 password ***

 login

line vty 5 15

 password ***

 login

!

End

The bond configuration was working in active/backup mode on some old dell switches at the old companies' location.

Suggestion:

You're using LACP on the servers, so you need to use LACP on the Cisco switch too.

On the stack master, enter the following configuration...

That will configure an EtherChannel using LACP on ports 1/0/1, 2/0/1, 3/0/1 and 3/0/2.  Substitute the ports numbers with the actual port numbers.

SF300-24P Versus Cisco WS-C2960-24PC-L, How to Solve

Question: Is there a best practice as far as selecting a POE switch for a small office with 14 users? Cisco makes several SMB model available and I am not sure if the WS-C2960-24PC-L is overkilled for my environment. I have one avaya VoIP phone, two APs, and some PCs. I need QoS feature on the switch for the Avaya phone. Thanks.

Answer: Of course the 2960 will give better performance but usually for larger networks. the SMB models were desinged with smaller networks in mind. For example i have 5 SMB switches in my current evironment and we have great throughput on our network. In my previous environment i had over 100 29XX models and it was fine.But in my previous network the SMB models would not have been able to handle it. For a small network the SF300 is perfect and affordable. You should have no issues as far as performance.

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Cisco WS-C2960S-24TD-L Datasheet and Price

Cisco WS-C2960S-24TD-L Datasheet

• 24 Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports

• 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 2 1 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplink ports

• Optional Cisco FlexStack stacking support

• LAN Base image

• Stackable switch, use C2960S-STACK

• Forwarding bandwidth: 88 Gbps

• Switching bandwidth: 176 Gbps

• Forwarding Rate(64-Byte Packet): 65.5 mpps

• Dimensions (H x W x D): 4.5 x 44.5 x 30 CM

• Weight: 4.3 KG

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches are fixed-configuration Gigabit Ethernet switches that provide enterprise-class Layer 2 switching for campus and branch access applications. They enable reliable and secure business operations with lower total cost of ownership through a range of innovative features including FlexStack, Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), and Cisco Catalyst SmartOperations.

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Queation about the connection of Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-S

Question: I am about to purchase a EMC VNXe3150 with dual controllers.  I'd like to have redundant switches.  I was looking at the WS-C2960S-24TS-S which comes with LAN entry lite feature set. 

Will I be able to connect two nic ports from each of 2 hyper-v hosts and two nic ports from each SAN controller to each switch and have 4Gbps connectivity from HOST to SAN using LACP?   Will the switches need to be connected to each other?  Using LACP?

If one switch fails would each server still have 2 Gbps connectivity to the SAN?  Could you provide more detail as to what is involved in the setup?

Answer: With iSCSI you would generally use MPIO rather than LACP etc. In general you don't get all paths in use for a single LUN but if you use multiple LUNs then round robin will assign a 1Gb path to the first LUN (say your E: drive) and a second path to the second LUN (say F:). Dependant on your iSCSI initiator LACP may not be supported. Not sure if the VNXe supports trunking rather than MPIO either.

BTW, it's not a SAN Cisco Switch just because you're running iSCSI over it, it's really just an Ethernet/LAN switch but that's just me being pedantic.

Question about IOS of Cisco C2960S-STACK

Question: Cisco C2960S-STACK with enterprise IOS. I'd like to add 3 more. But this time., I'd like to get the recommended 3 2960X with IP Base IOS. From my understanding, all the switches have to have the same IOS. To keep the cost down, I'd like to get everything with IP Base. I am just wondering if there will be any problem as far as incompatibility.

Answer: When different versions of IOS are detected, the stack member switches will use the stack master's verion of IOS to prevent version mismatch issues.  Just make sure to power on the master switch first and let it get up and running before connecting and powering on the member switches, the stack members will then join the master and use its IOS vesion.

More information refer to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps6406/white_paper_c11-578928.html , details for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S FlexStack..

Cisco FlexStack stacking for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches provides a true stacking solution with all switches in a FlexStack stack acting as a single switching unit. FlexStack provides a unified data plane, and single configuration for a group of stacked Cisco Catalyst 2960-S switches.

Stacking Ethernet switches reduces the network administrator's total cost of ownership. The cost of maintaining the network is decreased because there are fewer devices to manage, and the network uptime is increased with built-in redundancy.

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Cisco expects that revenue fells in second quarter : Point on market demand

Beijing morning news on November 14th, the United States of America Cisco network equipment supplier on Wednesday warned, the company's second quarter revenue felt 8% to 10%, in order to tumble 10% in after hours trading.

Cisco said, in the first quarter of October 26th, the company had revenue of $12090000000, compared with the same period last year $11880000000 growth 2%, lower than the averageanalyst expectations of $12340000000. The company forecast the quarter revenue growth is 3% to 5%.

Cisco stock market after hours trading Wednesday on the NASDAQ fell 10.36%, to $21.51. The stock on the Nasdaq stock market trading to close at 23.99 U.S. dollars, since August, issued aquarterly has fallen 9%.

Cisco first quarter profit fell to $2000000000, the amount of earnings per share of $0.37, the same period last year were $2090000000 and $0.39.

Excluding non normal items, earnings per share of the company's $0.53, exceeded analysts on average expected $0.51. Cisco said, the company's new profit included because Augustannounced 4000 job cuts and included in the $237000000 pre tax expenses.

Cisco CEO John Chambers (John Chambers) said, the weak performance of energy demand inemerging markets such as China's weakness. Because the United States governmentmonitoring behavior produced a bad influence in China, so where the enterprises in the purchase of Cisco products become more hesitant.

Cisco said, because China and other emerging market demand, and the United States government comes on the impact of corporate expenses, resulting in the first quarter of the company's revenue growth is not expected.

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