Cisco Nexus 4000 Series
The Cisco Nexus™ 4001I Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter is a blade
switch solution for IBM BladeCenter H and HT chassis, providing the server
I/O solution required for high-performance, scale-out, virtualized and
non-virtualized x86 computing architectures.
• Line-rate, extremely low-latency, nonblocking, Layer 2, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
blade switch
• Fully compliant with the INCITS Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and IEEE
802.1 Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards
• Unified Fabric architecture provides a significant reduction in the number of
switches, network interface cards, cabling, and power requirements.
• Supports 14 fixed 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet server-facing downlinks and 6
fixed 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks
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