Gain a Fabric-Extensible, Innovative Platform

Help enable any transport over Ethernet, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic and storage traffic, on one common data-center-class platform. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches help transform your data center, with a standards-based, multipurpose, multiprotocol, Ethernet-based fabric.

Features and Capabilities

As part of the foundation for Cisco Unified Fabric, Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches help address business, application, and operational requirements of evolving data centers. They provide infrastructure simplicity, to decrease the total cost of ownership, as well as:

• Broad connectivity support including Gigabit Ethernet (GE), 10 GE, 10GBase-T, 40 GE, native Fibre Channel (FC), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Enhanced business resilience, with greater operational continuity, based on modular Cisco NX-OS operating system
• Ability to use existing operational models and administrative domains, for easy deployment
• Ability to synchronize system clocks with an accuracy of less than one microsecond, based on IEEE 1588

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