Back at Cisco Live 2013, there was some chatter around the Insieme deal and the potential to see a new switch from Cisco during the event. I think even Greg over at EtherealMind was hoping for some more juicy Insieme announcements at Cisco Live as well ( see post – http://etherealmind.com/musing-predicting-what-insieme-might-announce-at-cisco-live/ )Well, what we actuall got at Cisco Live was the Nexus 7700 switch and the Gold Cisco 6608 Catalyst Switches, not the hoped for Insieme switch.
Then today I saw that there an article posted over on NetworkWorld ( http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/100213-interop-cisco-insieme-274455.html ) in regards to the Insieme Nexus 9K and Hardware Defined Networking that caught my attention. There is another article there – http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-nexus-9000-aimed-40g – that has some output from a 9508 switch as well.