Cisco WS-C3750G-48PS-S Switch Manual page 9

Introduction
Series Overview
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Fabric Extender
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
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The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (FEX) behave as remote line cards
for a parent Cisco Nexus 5000 Series or 7000 Series switch, simplifying data center
access operations and architecture by combining the management simplicity of
end-of-row platforms with the flexible physical layout of top-of-rack platforms.
• Up to 48 100/1000 BASE-T ports plus 4 10 GE uplinks, 32 1/10 GE/FCoE with 8 10
GE uplinks and 32 1/10GBASE-T with 8 10 GE uplinks configurations
• Up to 24 Fabric Extenders per Cisco Nexus 5000 parent switch (Homogeneous
policies across 1152 1G ports and 768 10G/FCoE ports)
• Up to 32 Fabric Extenders per Cisco Nexus 7000 parent switch (Homogeneous
policies across 1536 1G ports and 1024 10G ports)
• Rich Layer 2-4 switching features and intelligent services inherited from
parent switch
• Ideal to support today' s traditional Gigabit Ethernet while allowing transparent
migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtual machine-aware, unified fabric technologies
• Operational simplicity at scale for datacenter point of delivery (POD) access
level design
• Front-to-back cooling compatible with data center hot-aisle and cold-aisle design,
forward and reversed airflow options, AC/DC power supply options
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Series Overview
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Blade Switches
Cisco Nexus 4000 Series
The Cisco Nexus™ 4001I Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter is a blade
switch solution for IBM BladeCenter H and HT chassis, providing the server
I/O solution required for high-performance, scale-out, virtualized and
non-virtualized x86 computing architectures.
• Line-rate, extremely low-latency, nonblocking, Layer 2, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
blade switch
• Fully compliant with the INCITS Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and IEEE
802. 1 Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards
• Unified Fabric architecture provides a significant reduction in the number of
switches, network interface cards, cabling, and power requirements.
• Supports 14 fixed 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet server-facing downlinks and 6
fixed 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks
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