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Fabric Extender: Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
Hardware Features
Cisco Nexus 2148T
Fabric Extender Host Interfaces 48
Fabric Extender Host Interfaces Type 1000BASE-T ports: RJ-45 connectors
Fabric Extender Fabric Interfaces 4
Fabric Extender Fabric Interfaces Type
Fiber: SFP+ optics (SFP-10G-SR and SFP-10G-LR)
Copper: 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ passive
Twinax copper cables (SFP-H10GB-CU1M,
SFP-H10GB-CU3M, and SFP-H10GB-CU5M) and
active Twinax copper cables (SFP-H10GB-ACU7M,
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M)
Distance between Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric
Extender and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch:
Up to 3 km
Fabric Speed 6.40 Gbps in each direction (80 Gbps full duplex)
Oversubscription 1. 2 :1
Performance
Hardware forwarding at 176 Gbps or 131 million
packets per second (Mpps)
Cisco Parent Switch Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Minimum Software
Cisco NX-OS Release 4.0(1A)N2(1) on the Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco Nexus 2248TP Cisco Nexus 2224TP Cisco Nexus 2232PP
48 24 32
100BASE-T/1000BASE-T ports:
RJ-45 connectors
100BASE-T/1000BASE-T ports:
RJ-45 connectors
1/10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
SFP/SFP+ (Supported transceiver
and cables include Twinax
SFP-H10GB-CU1M,
SFP-H10GB-CU3M,
SFP-H10GB-CU5M,
SFP-H10GB-ACU7M, and
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M, include
SFP+ SFP-10G-SR, SFP-10G-LR,
and include SFP GLC-T, GLC-
SX-MM, GLC-LH-SM, SFP-GE-T,
SFP-GE-S, SFP-GE-L)
4 2 8
Fiber: Cisco Fabric Extender
Transceiver (FET-10G) and
SFP+ optics (SFP-10G-SR and
SFP-10G-LR)
Copper: 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+
passive Twinax copper cables
(SFP-H10GB-CU1M,
SFP-H10GB-CU3M, and
SFP-H10GB-CU5M) and active
Twinax copper cables
(SFP-H10GB-ACU7M,
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M)
Distance between Cisco Nexus
2000 Series Fabric Extender and
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch:
Up to 3 km
Distance between Cisco Nexus
2000 Series Fabric Extender and
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch:
Up to 10 km
Fiber: Cisco Fabric Extender
Transceiver (FET-10G) and
SFP+ optics (SFP-10G-SR and
SFP-10G-LR)
Copper: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
SFP+ passive Twinax copper
cables (SFP-H10GB-CU1M,
SFP-H10GB-CU3M, and
SFP-H10GB-CU5M) and active
Twinax copper cables
(SFP-H10GB-ACU7M,
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M)
Distance between Cisco Nexus
2000 Series Fabric Extender and
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch:
Up to 3 km
Fiber: Cisco Fabric Extender
Transceiver (FET-10G) and
SFP+ optics (SFP-10G-SR and
SFP-10G-LR)
Copper: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
SFP+ passive Twinax copper
cables (SFP-H10GB-CU1M,
SFP-H10GB-CU3M, and
SFP-H10GB-CU5M) and active
Twinax copper cables
(SFP-H10GB-ACU7M,
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M)
Distance between Cisco Nexus
2000 Series Fabric Extender and
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch:
Up to 3 km (300m for FCoE traffic)
40 Gbps in each direction
(80 Gbps full duplex)
20 Gbps in each direction
(40 Gbps full duplex)
80 Gbps in each direction
(160 Gbps full duplex)
1. 2 :1 1.2 :1 4 :1
Hardware forwarding at 176 Gbps
or 131 Mpps
Hardware forwarding at 88 Gbps
or 65 Mpps
Hardware forwarding at 560 Gbps
or 595 Mpps
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1)N1(1) on
the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 5.1 on the
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1)N2(1)
on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2 on the
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1)N2(1)
on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2 on the
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series