Overview; Overview Of The Cisco Nexus 3550-T Triton Switches - Cisco Nexus 3550-T Hardware Installation Manual

Overview

• Overview of the Cisco Nexus 3550-T Triton Switches, on page 1
• Hardware Architecture of the Cisco Nexus 3550-T Triton Switches, on page 2

Overview of the Cisco Nexus 3550-T Triton Switches

The Cisco Nexus 3550-T Programmable Switch Platform is a powerful top-of-rack Ethernet switch and
application platform with a unique low-latency design. It offers comprehensive layer 2 and layer 3 switching
capabilities. The device is built around a flexible FPGA device, offering long term feature enhancements,
upgrades, and fixes, as well as a complete firmware development environment for custom applications.
Figure 1: The Cisco Nexus 3550-T Triton
The hardware platform specifications of the Nexus 3550-T are as follows:
• 1RU 48 port SFP28 (Small Form-factor Pluggable 28) configuration (backwards compatible with SFP+
and SFP).
• Dual redundant, hot-swap PSUs and dual hot-swap fans.
• Build using a Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale Plus VU35P Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with a "-3"
speed grade. The chip has 8GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on board.
• x86-based management processor with 100MB/s/1GB/s (RJ45) and 1GB (SFP+) based management
ports.
• Hardware (electronics) supporting 25G speeds to the FPGA.
Ease of Management
1
C H A P T E R
Cisco Nexus 3550-T Hardware Installation Guide
1