Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch

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The next generation of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches is here. The Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch delivers innovative architectural flexibility, infrastructure simplicity, and business agility for traditional, virtualized, unified, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

As part of the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage, the Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch delivers these IT and business advantages:

Architectural Flexibility

• Unified ports support traditional Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC),and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Connectivity options include: Gigabit, 10 Gigabit (fiber and copper), FC, and FCoE
• Provides support for all Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders

Infrastructure Simplicity

• One common high-density, high-performance, data-center-class, fixed-form-factor platform to consolidate LAN and storage
• Any transport over an Ethernet-based fabric, including Layer 2, Layer 3, and storage traffic (iSCSI, NAS, FC, RoE, and IBoE)
• Reduced management points with Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders

Business Agility

• A single platform to meet diverse data center deployments, such as traditional, virtualized, unified, and HPC environments
• Provides rapid migration and transition options between traditional, new, and developing technologies
• Performance and scalability to meet your company's growing business needs

The Cisco Nexus 5548P is a 1RU 10Gbps switch offering up to 960 Gbps throughput and up to 48 ports. It offers 32, 1/10 Gbps fixed SFP+ unified Ethernet/FCoE ports and one expansion slot.

The expansion modules include:

• 16-port 10 Gbps SFP+ Ethernet/FCoE
• 8-port 10 Gbps SFP+ Ethernet/FCoE, plus 8-port 1/2/4/8Gbps Native FC