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April 08, 2008

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
The innovative architecture of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches simplifies data center transformation by helping to enable a standards-based, high-performance unified fabric.

March 04, 2008

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers offer service providers and enterprises industry-leading performance, service capabilities, reliability, and efficiencies in a compact form factor. Using an innovative new Cisco QuantumFlow processor, current and future services can be instantly turned on to operate at line rate without compromising network performance or availability.

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular data center-class switching system designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The Cisco Nexus architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second, with future availability of 40Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet and unified fabric I/O modules. This new platform is designed for exceptional scalability, continuous systems operation, and transport flexibility.

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed to be deployed in server racks, and the series is designed much like the servers it supports. All ports and power entry connections are at the rear of the switches, simplifying cabling and minimizing cable length. Cooling is front-to-back, supporting hot- and cold-aisle configurations that help increase cooling efficiency. The front panel includes status indicators and hot-swappable, N+1 redundant power supplies and cooling modules. All serviceable components are accessible from the front panel, allowing the switch to be serviced while in operation and without disturbing network cabling. The switch family's port density is such that, depending on the switch model and server rack configuration, switches can support top-of-rack, adjacent-rack, and end-of-row configurations.

Cisco Nexus 5020 56-Port Switch



The Cisco Nexus 5020 is a two-rack-unit (2RU), 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and FCoE access-layer switch built to provide 1.04 Tbps of throughput with very low latency. It has 40 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports that accept modules and cables meeting the Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) form factor. Two expansion module slots can be configured to support up to 12 additional 10 Gigabit ports, up to 16 Fibre Channel ports, or a combination of both. The switch has a single serial console port and a single out-of-band 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet management port. Two N+1 redundant, hot-pluggable power supplies and five N+1 redundant, hot-pluggable fan modules provide highly reliable front-to-back cooling.

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series delivers these benefits to data centers through the following product features:

• High performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet: The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is a family of line-rate, low-latency, cost-effective 10 Gigabit switches designed for access-layer applications.

• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is the first open-standards-based access-layer switch to support I/O consolidation at the rack level through FCoE.

• Cisco Data Center Ethernet: The switch family incorporates a series of Ethernet enhancements designed for the data center, including flow control and network congestion management.

• VM Optimized Services: The switch family supports end-port virtualization and virtual machine optimized services, helping increase the scalability of virtual Layer 2 networks and enhancing application performance and security.