May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
788 pages
23h 34m
English
Before I get into the details of Nexus design principles, I must introduce some new icons to describe these devices. Figure 18-10 shows the icons used in my network diagrams to describe traditional switches.

Figure 18-10. Traditional network icons in the Cisco style
Cisco has introduced new iconography to describe the Nexus line. The new icons are shown in Figure 18-11. Notice that all of the Nexus icons have the same atomic-looking pattern with arrows on the front or bottom of the icon.

Figure 18-11. New Nexus icons
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