Cisco WS-C3550-12G Switch Guide - Page 10

Introduction Series Overview (continued) Fixed-Configuration Switches Cisco Nexus 5000 Series The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches help you transform the data center with innovative, standardsbased, multilayer, multiprotocol, and multipurpose Ethernet-based fabric. Now with the Unified Ports functionality you can help enable any transport over Ethernet, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic, and storage traffic, all on one common data center-class platform. • Based on the Cisco® NX-OS operating system, that is resilient, efficient, virtualized and extensible • High performance, low latency system with up to 1.92 Tbps switching fabric and 1428 Mpps forwarding rate • Front-to-back cooling supports efficient data center hot- and cold-aisle designs • Unified ports provides flexibility in choosing SAN and LAN port options consistent with the virtualized data center and offer a migration path to FCoE • LAN and SAN Convergence ready through FCoE-based unified fabric and Fibre Channel support in a lossless Ethernet service platform. Energy efficiency achieved with the convergence of the networks • Virtualization-aware networking through virtualization optimized services and mobility by mapping virtual machines to network profiles • Supports the extension of the fabric extender technology into the servers and virtual machines via Adapter FEX and VM-FEX technologies. Nexus 5000 Series Switches acts as the single point of network management for these servers and virtual machines • Pair with Nexus 5000 for up to 24 fabric extenders per Cisco Nexus 5548P switch 8 Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch is a high performance, high density, sub-microsecond latency ethernet switch, which is part of the brand new Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches. This compact 1RU form factor 10GbE switch provides wire-rate L2 and L3 switching and future-proofs networks with 40GbE standards-based technologies while also being backward compatible with 1GbE. Cisco Nexus 3064 is ideal for financial co-location deployments requiring support for advanced unicast and multicast routing protocol features at ultra-low latency.Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches extends the comprehensive proven innovations of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage into the HFT market too. The switch does so by delivering functionalities such as ultra-low latency and wire-rate L2/L3 switching on data center class NX-OS operating system. The key challenges addressed by the Cisco Nexus 3000 series include: • Increased application sensitivity to network latency • Increasing bandwidth requirements due to increasing application workloads • N eed for supporting advanced routing protocols with resiliency • N eed to measure network latency between servers Key highlights of Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches: • Ultra Low Latency - Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches delivers ultra-low latency that translates to faster data transactions thereby resulting in increased revenue for the financial companies. • W ire-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching on all 64 10GbE ports - Layer 2/3 switching up to 1.2Tbps, over 950Mpps (Million Packets per second) in a compact 1RU form factor switch. - Future-proof with 40GbE standards-based support • Purpose-built on NX-OS operating system with comprehensive, proven innovations - Modular OS built from the ground up for resiliency - Full L3 routing protocol suites including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2 - Integration with Cisco DCNM and XML management tools - Support for Precision Time Protocol (IEEE-1588) to synchronize system clocks with nanosecond accuracy Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series The Cisco Catalyst® 4500-X Series offers best-in-class Layer 2 and Layer 3 services in a small form factor for space-constrained LAN aggregation in campus and branchoffice deployments. The switch simplifies aggregation deployments using the new Cisco IOS® XE Software Operating System with several important innovations such as virtualization, application visibility, and hosted applications such as Wireshark. • Layer 2-4 switching and intelligent services with 250-Mpps IPv4 and 125-Mpps IPv6 • Rich IP Multicast, quality of service (QoS), and security • Flexible NetFlow and Wireshark • Simplified virtualization and application monitoring • Wire-rate performance delivering 800 Gbps • Configurations from sixteen to forty 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports • Every port configurable in 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet mode • Resilient with dual hot-swappable internal AC or DC power supplies • Hot-swappable fans with N + 1 redundancy