Cisco WS-C3550-12G Switch Guide - Page 14
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Introduction Series Overview (continued) Fabric Extender Cisco Nexus 2000 Series The Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (FEX) behave as remote line cards for a parent Cisco Nexus 5000 Series or 7000 Series switch, simplifying data center access operations and architecture by combining the management simplicity of end-of-row platforms with the flexible physical layout of top-of-rack platforms. • Up to 48 100/1000 BASE-T ports plus 4 10 GE uplinks, 32 1/10 GE/FCoE with 8 10 GE uplinks and 32 1/10GBASE-T with 8 10 GE uplinks configurations • Up to 24 Fabric Extenders per Cisco Nexus 5000 parent switch (Homogeneous policies across 1152 1G ports and 768 10G/FCoE ports) • Up to 32 Fabric Extenders per Cisco Nexus 7000 parent switch (Homogeneous policies across 1536 1G ports and 1024 10G ports) • Rich Layer 2-4 switching features and intelligent services inherited from parent switch • Ideal to support today's traditional Gigabit Ethernet while allowing transparent migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtual machine-aware, unified fabric technologies • Operational simplicity at scale for datacenter point of delivery (POD) access level design • Front-to-back cooling compatible with data center hot-aisle and cold-aisle design, forward and reversed airflow options, AC/DC power supply options 12