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Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Overview
The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform is the third generation of the Data Center Server-Access Nexus 5000
series of switches. Nexus 5600 series switches have a flexible, agile and energy efficient design that
supports a broad range of traditional data center and large-scale virtualized cloud deployments.
This chapter provides an overview of the following Cisco Nexus 5600 Series switches:
• Cisco Nexus 5672UP-16G
• Cisco Nexus 5648Q
• Cisco Nexus 5624Q
• Cisco Nexus 5696Q
• Cisco Nexus 56128P
• Cisco Nexus 5672UP
This includes information on the expansion modules, power supplies, and fan modules that you can
include with the switch.
Cisco Nexus 5672UP-16G
This section describes the Cisco Nexus 5672UP-16G (N5K-C5672UP-16G) switch and its components.
This section includes the following topics:
• Features
• Power Supply
• Fan Modules
• Transceivers
Features
Cisco Nexus 5672UP-16G switch is a compact 1RU (1 Rack Unit), high-performance, low-latency
1/10/40-Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch. It runs the
industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system, providing features and capabilities that are
widely deployed.