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Cisco Unveils Nexus 7000 Series

Support for up to 256 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 384 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports in a single 10-slot chassis

• A fully modular and fully redundant 10-slot chassis with front-to-back airflow and integrated cable management

• Dual dedicated supervisor modules, providing exceptional high-availability features with no service interruptions even during hardware and software upgrades

• Highly scalable fabric architecture supporting up to five fabric modules for load-balanced, fault-tolerant operation and designed to deliver 230 Gbps per slot of bandwidth at release, with future support for more than 500 Gbps per slot

• Virtual output queuing and Fabric Arbitration, deliver quality of service (QoS) and fairness across all ports, even during congestion, and provide the basis for future unified I/O

• Integrated security hardware support for Cisco TrustSec, providing data confidentiality while simplifying and scaling access control

• Fully distributed forwarding engines, providing scalable packet processing and forwarding

• Three load-sharing power supply modules, allowing either 110V or 220V AC inputs. With 220V AC inputs these power supplies will deliver fault tolerance for a fully loaded chassis with worst-case N+1 and grid redundancy


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