Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch

Get a Fabric-Extensible, Innovative Platform

As part of the network foundation of Unified Fabric, the Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch delivers innovative architectural flexibility, infrastructure simplicity, and business agility, with support for networking standards. For traditional, virtualized, unified, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments, it offers a long list of IT and business advantages, including:

Architectural Flexibility

Unified ports that support traditional Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC),and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Synchronizes system clocks with accuracy of less than one microsecond, based on IEEE 1588
Offers converged Fabric extensibility, based on emerging standard IEEE 802.1BR, with Fabric Extender (FEX) Technology portfolio, including:
Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX
Adapter FEX
VM-FEX

Infrastructure Simplicity

Common high-density, high-performance, data-center-class, fixed-form-factor platform
Consolidates LAN and storage
Supports any transport over an Ethernet-based fabric, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic
Supports storage traffic, including iSCSI, NAS, FC, RoE, and IBoE
Reduces management points with FEX Technology

Business Agility

Meets diverse data center deployments on one platform
Provides rapid migration and transition for traditional and evolving technologies
Offers performance and scalability to meet growing business needs

Specifications at a Glance

A 1 -rack-unit, 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switch
32 fixed Unified Ports on base chassis and one expansion slot totaling 48 ports
The slot can support any of the three modules: Unified Ports, 1/2/4/8 native Fibre Channel, and Ethernet or FCoE
Throughput of up to 960 Gbps