[130001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Sep 25 12:05:53 2010
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:05:29 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 9/24/10 5:28 PM, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>> While this question has many dimensions and there is no real
>> definition of either I suspect that what many people mean when they
>> talk about a DC routers is:
>
>>From the datacenter operator prospective, it would be nice if some of these vendors would acknowledge the need for front-to-back cooling. I mean, it is 2010.
>
Well, if you look at the hardware it's dead obvious: airflow goes across
the linecards. Nexus 7k 10-slot has front bottom to back top airflow
because it uses vertically oriented cards.
~Seth
