Categories: Networking, Cisco Switches, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Nexus 3000
The Cisco Nexus 3048 Switch, part of the Unified Fabric family, is a 1 Gigabit Ethernet, top-of-rack (ToR) switch in a compact 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. It delivers wire-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching on a data center-class Cisco NX-OS operating system. It is ideal for Big Data environments.
Physical
1 RU fixed-form-factor switch
48 100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 ports
Four 1/10 Gbps SFP+ uplink ports
Two redundant power supplies
One fan tray with redundant fans
1 I/O module with management, console, and USB flash memory ports
Performance
176 Gbps switching capacity
132 mpps forwarding rate
Line-rate traffic throughput (both Layer 2 and 3) on all ports
Configurable MTUs of up to 9216 bytes (jumbo frames)
Hardware Tables and Scalability
MAC addresses
128,000
Number of VLANS
4096
Spanning-tree instances
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP): 512
Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol: 64
Access control list (ACL) entries
2000 ingress
1000 egress
Routing table
16,000 prefixes and 16,000 host entries*
8000 multicast routes*
Number of EtherChannels
64 (with vPC)
Number of ports per EtherChannel
16
Buffers
9 MB shared
Boot flash memory
2 GB
