sFlow vs netFlow/IPFIX

Peter Phaal peter.phaal at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 17:25:24 UTC 2016


> 
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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>> On 2/Mar/16 08:04, Mark Tinka wrote:
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>> We were initially looking at at the Nexus 9000, but then moved to the
>> 7700 because the Broadcom chip on the 7700 cannot do single flows larger
>> than 40Gbps on the 100Gbps ports.
> 
> The Broadcom chip on the 9000, I meant...
> 
> Mark.

The Nexus 3200 should work well with 100G flows - I believe it's based on the latest Broadcom Tomahawk ASIC. The older Trident II ASICs in the Nexus 9k are 40g parts


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