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What is Cisco Smart Call Home?

Yasir Irfan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:42:54 +0000

The Smart Call Home is a feature from Cisco System which exists since long time but I noticed this feature quite lately. For the first I heard this feature with the Cisco SUP 720 Supervisor Engine for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches. With arrival of Nexus 7010 Series Switch and the training “Implementing Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure 2″ gave me an insight and its importance.

According Cisco System the Cisco Smart Call Home feature continuously monitors hardware and software components to provide interactive technical support. The Cisco Smart Call Home feature is capable of providing range of message formats for optimal compatibility with pager services, standard email and XML based automated parsing applications. Cisco Smart Call Home combines Cisco GOLD and Cisco EEM capabilities to offers detailed diagnostics and real-time alerts, leading to faster resolution of problems.

Some of the benefits of configuring Cisco Smart Call Home are as follows

Higher Network Ability.
Reduced Network TCO.
Improved Network Performance.

Cisco NX-OS does also support Smart Call Home. In coming articles let see how Cisco Smart Call Home works.

Cisco Nexus® 7000 48-Port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet F2-Series Module is released

Yasir Irfan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:57:48 +0000

Recently Cisco announced the introduction of new portfolio of switching products to augment the Cisco Unified Fabric product range. This range consists of Nexus data center switches and MDS storage switches that connect servers, data storage, and corporate networks seamlessly within the data center and cloud.

With the introduction of Cisco Nexus^® 7000 48-Port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet F2-Series Module, Cisco has unveiled second generation capabilities for the Nexus 7000 family switches. The Cisco Nexus^® 7000 48-Port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet F2-Series Module offers outstanding flexibility and wire-rate performance on each port. The module enables the deployment of high-density, low-latency, scalable data center architectures.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches provide the foundation of the Cisco^® Unified Fabric. They are a modular data center-class product line designed for highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The fabric architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second (Tbps), designed to support future 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. To meet the requirements of the most mission-critical network environments, the switches deliver continuous system operations and virtualized services. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is powered by the proven Cisco NX-OS Software operating system, with enhanced features to deliver real-time system upgrades with exceptional manageability and serviceability. Its innovative unified fabric design is purpose built to support consolidation of IP and storage networks on a single lossless Ethernet fabric.

For further details check this link.

A brief overview of Cisco NX-OS

Yasir Irfan — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:31:02 +0000

No doubt Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch is a better choose for Data Center so does the NX-OS. Cisco Systems built the NX-OS data center-class operating system with modularity, resiliency and serviceability as it foundation. Cisco Systems designed NX-OS based on Cisco Storage Area Network Operating System (SAN-OS) software. Some of the advantages of Cisco NX-OS are as following

Unified data center operating system
Robust and rich feature set with a variety of Cisco innovations
Flexibility and scalability
Modularity
Virtualization
Resiliency
IPv4 and IPv6 IP routing and multicast features
Comprehensive security, availability, serviceability, and management features