Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch N5K-C56128P

Latency

1 microsecond

Expansion slots

2

Number of ports

1152 with FEX

10 GE

Up to 96 wire-rate ports

40 GE

Up to 8 QSFP ports

Unified ports

Up to 48 ports (Ethernet; FCoE; 2/4/8-gigabit FC)

10 and 40 Gbps FCoE

Yes

Hardware VXLAN

Yes

Form factor

2-rack unit

Interfaces

●   48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports with 4 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ fixed ports and 2 expansion slots

●  Expansion module: 24 SFP+ unified ports plus 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports

●  Conversion of 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces through QSFP+ breakout cable

●  Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms

Performance

●     Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 2.56 Tbps; 1904 mpps (64-byte packets)

●  Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries

●  Low latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

●  25-MB buffer per 12 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces

●  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in Layer 2 and 3 mode

High-Availability Features

●  Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2

●  Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules

●  N+1 and N+N power redundancy

●  N+1 fan module redundancy

Data Center Bridging

●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support: IEEE 802.1Qbb)

●  PFC link distance support: 20 km

●  CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol

●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection

SNMP MIBs

Ethernet MIBs

●  CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB

●  CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB

●  CISCO-VTP-MIB

●  UDP-MIB

●  TCP-MIB

●  OSPF-MIB

●  BGP4-MIB

●  CISCO-HSRP-MIB

Miscellaneous MIBs

●  START-MIB

●  CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB

●  CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB

●  CISCO-CDP-MIB

●  CISCO-RF-MIB

●  CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB

●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

●  CISCO-FCOE-MIB

●  CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB

●  CISCO-ZS-MIB

Monitoring MIBs

●  DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC

●  NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB

●  DIFFSERV-MIB

●  CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB

●  CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

●  RMON-MIB

●  CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB

●  CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB

●  LLDP-MIB

Standards

Industry Standards

●  IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol

●  IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization

●  IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging

●  IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection

●  IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause

●  IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol

●  IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol

●  IEEE 802.3: Ethernet

●  IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers

●  IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

●  IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (Applies to 40G SR4, SR4-S, LR4, LR4-S, and CSR4 optics only)

●  SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support

●  RMON