Cisco Nexus 5600 Series - Transceivers; Cisco Nexus 5696 Q; Features

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Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Chapter 1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5696Q
Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5624Q supports a wide variety of 1, 10, and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options.
For the most current list of supported transceivers, refer to the latest Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Release
Notes at every release.
Cisco Nexus 5696Q
This section describes the Cisco Nexus 5696Q (N5K-C5696Q) and its components. This section includes
the following topics:
• Features
• Chassis
• Expansion Modules
• Ports
• Power Supply
• Fan Module
• Transceivers
Features
The Cisco Nexus 5696Q switch is a four-rack-unit (4RU) 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch. It offers-
• Eight line-card expansion module (LEM) slots to support up to 96 ports of 40-Gbps throughput.
– Each LEM supports 12 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet in a quad small form-factor pluggable
(QSFP) footprint.
– Each 40 Gigabit Ethernet port can also be split into four line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
using QSFP breakout cables.
This flexibility makes the Cisco Nexus 5696Q the only fully extensible fixed 10 and 40 Gigabit
Ethernet platform in the industry.
• A unified expansion module for 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and FC/FCoE support.
• The unified port module provides
– Up to twenty 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using the SFP+ interface
Or
– Up to twenty ports of 8/4-Gbps native Fibre Channel connectivity using the SFP+ and SFP
interfaces;
The use of 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet or 8/4-Gbps Fibre Channel on a port is mutually exclusive but can
be selected for any of the twenty physical ports per module.
• A 4-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet line card expansion module for 100 Gigabit Ethernet support.