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Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Chapter 1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5696Q
Figure 1-8 12 Port 40 Gbps Line Card Expansion Module
N5696-M20UP
The Cisco Nexus 5696Q offers a Unified Port, Linecard Expansion Module (UP LEM) for
Ethernet/FCoE and native Fibre Channel support. The UP LEM (N5696-M20UP) provides up to twenty
1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using the SFP+ interface or up to twenty ports of native Fibre
Channel connectivity using 8 and 4G 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.
N5696-M4C
The Cisco Nexus 5696-M4C LEM is a 4-port 100G LEM that provides 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports for
the Cisco Nexus 5696Q switch. Each 5696-M4C offers 4 CXP optical module connections, which
provide a total bandwidth of 400Gbps. The port interface supports CXP optical PMD modules such as
CXP-100G-SR10 and CXP-100G-SR12. You can configure a total of 8 100G LEM modules in a Cisco
Nexus 5696Q switch to provide a total of 32 CXP 100 Gigabit Ethernet connections.
Figure 1-9 4 Port 100Gbps Line Card Expansion Module
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