Nexus 5000 Series Switches - Cisco WS-C4900M Manual

Nexus 5000 Series Switches

As a part of the Unified Fabric pillar of the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage
architectural framework, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches deliver an
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innovative architecture to simplify data center transformation by enabling a
high-performance, standards-based, Ethernet fabric. The platform consolidates
separate LAN, SAN, and server cluster network environments into a single Ethernet
fabric. Backed by a broad system of industry-leading technology partners, the Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series is designed to meet the challenges of next-generation data
centers, including dense multi-socket, multi-core, virtual machine–optimized
services, in which infrastructure sprawl and increasingly demanding workloads
are commonplace.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series features a high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit
Ethernet cut-through switching architecture for 10 Gigabit Ethernet server access in
next-generation data centers. With connectivity options ranging from Ethernet, Fibre
Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), this platform delivers flexible
connectivity as your data center evolves while creating a lossless Ethernet service
with no-drop flow control.
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