25 Sep
2010
25 Sep
'10
3:16 p.m.
On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:05, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
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.
Bakplanes make direct front to back cooling hard. non-modular platforms can do it just fine however.
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