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Re: sFlow vs netFlow/IPFIX


From: Peter Phaal <peter.phaal () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:25:24 -0800


On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:



On 2/Mar/16 08:04, Mark Tinka wrote:

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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