Chassis; Expansion Modules - Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Chapter 1 Overview
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Chassis

The Cisco Nexus 5696Q switch chassis is 4 RU, 6.97 inches (17.7 cm) tall, 17.3 inches (43.9 cm) wide
and 30 inches (76.2 cm) deep. It is designed to be mounted in a standard 19-inch wide rack. The fan side
of the switch, has a console port, management port and USB port, six power supplies, and four fan
modules. This chassis also supports N+N power supply redundancy and N+1 fan module redundancy.

Expansion Modules

Expansion modules allow the Cisco Nexus 5696Q switch to be configured as cost-effective10/40-Gigabit
Ethernet switches and as I/O consolidation platforms with native Fibre Channel connectivity. The
supported expansion modules are:
Cisco Nexus 5696Q Switch
Fan side view of Cisco Nexus 5696Q Switch
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