Cisco Nexus 5596UP DATA CENTER Switch

Performance
●  Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP: Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 960 Gbps or 714.24 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240 mpps
●  Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T: Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps or 1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240 mpps
●  MAC address table entries: 32,000
●  Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
●  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

Interfaces
●  Cisco Nexus 5548P: 32 fixed 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports; additional interfaces through one expansion module
●  Cisco Nexus 5548UP: 32 fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through one expansion module
●  Cisco Nexus 5596UP: 48 fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules
●  Cisco Nexus 5596T: 32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Etherent and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules
●  Expansion modules
●  16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
●  8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
●  Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE
●  4-port QSFP expansion module
●  12-port 10G BASE-T module (Cisco Nexus 5596T only)
●  Layer 3 module (Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system)
●  Layer 3 daughter card (Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system)
●  Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series

Layer 2 Features
●  Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
●  IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs
●  Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
●  Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
●  Spanning Tree PortFast
●  Spanning Tree root guard
●  Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
●  Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
●  Cisco vPC technology
●  Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host
●  vPC configuration synchronization
●  Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
●  Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
●  Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
●  Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
●  Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
●  Private VLANs
●  Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)
●  Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels
●  VLAN Remapping
●  Cisco FabricPath
●  EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath
●  Cisco Adapter FEX
●  Cisco Data Center VM FEX
●  Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform

Layer 3 Features
●  Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), PortChannels, subinterfaces, and PortChannel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries
●  Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries
●  Support for up to 8000 multicast routes
●  Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups
●  Support for 1000 VRF entries
●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs
●  16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)
●  1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries
●  Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
●  IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)
●  IPv6 VRF Lite
●  Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
●  ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL
●  Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
●  Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
●  Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
●  Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
●  Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules
●  RFC 896

Quality of Service (QoS)
●  Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS)
●  8 hardware queues per port
●  Per-port QoS configuration
●  CoS trust
●  Port-based CoS assignment
●  Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance – IPv4 and IPv6
●  ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4)
●  MQC CoS marking
●  Per-port virtual output queuing
●  CoS-based egress queuing
●  Egress strict-priority queuing
●  Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)
●  Control Plan Policing (CoPP) – IPv4 and IPv6

Security
●  Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports
●  Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc.
●  Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.
●  VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)
●  Port-based ACLs (PACLs)
●  Named ACLs
●  Optimized ACL distribution
●  ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)
●  ACL logging on management interface
●  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82
●  Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection
●  IP source guard
●  DHCP relay
●  Cisco CTS (Authentication and Policy download from ACS)
●  Ethernet Port Security
●  IPv6 RACL
●  IPv6 PACL
●  IPv6 VACL

High-Availability Features
●  In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2
●  Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules
●  1:1 power redundancy
●  N:1 fan module redundancy

Management
●  Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports
●  CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management
●  In-band switch management
●  Locator and beacon LEDs on Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
●  Port-based locator and beacon LEDs
●  Configuration synchronization
●  Module preprovisioning
●  Configuration rollback
●  Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)
●  Telnet
●  AAA
●  AAA with RBAC
●  RADIUS
●  TACACS+
●  Syslog (8 servers)
●  Embedded packet analyzer
●  SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & IPv6)
●  Enhanced SNMP MIB support
●  XML (NETCONF) support
●  Remote monitoring (RMON)
●  Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic
●  Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP
●  Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)
●  Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server
●  Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2
●  RBAC
●  Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on physical, PortChannel, VLAN, and Fibre Channel interfaces
●  Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)
●  Ingress and egress packet counters per interface
●  Network Time Protocol (NTP)
●  Cisco GOLD
●  Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests
●  Call Home
●  Smart Call Home
●  Cisco Fabric Manager
●  Cisco DCNM
●  CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging
●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support)
●  PFC link distance support: 3000m
●  CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol
●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection

SNMP MIBs
Generic MIBs 
●  SNMPv2-SMI
●  CISCO-SMI
●  SNMPv2-TM
●  SNMPv2-TC
●  IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB
●  IANAifType-MIB
●  IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB
●  HCNUM-TC
●  CISCO-TC
●  SNMPv2-MIB
●  SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB
●  SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
●  SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB
●  SNMP-TARGET-MIB
●  SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
●  SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
●  CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB

Layer 3 MIBs 
●  UDP-MIB
●  TCP-MIB
●  OSPF-MIB
●  BGP4-MIB
●  CISCO-HSRP-MIB

Fibre Channel MIBs
●  CISCO-ST-TC
●  CISCO-FC-FE-MIB
●  CISCO-FCSP-MIB
●  CISCO-PORT-TRACK-MIB
●  CISCO-PSM-MIB
●  CISCO-FC-SPAN-MIB
●  CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB
●  CISCO-RSCN-MIB
●  CISCO-NS-MIB
●  CISCO-FCS-MIB
●  CISCO-DM-MIB
●  FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB
●  CISCO-FC-ROUTE-MIB
●  CISCO-FSPF-MIB
●  CISCO-ZS-MIB
●  CISCO-ZS-EXT-MIB
●  CISCO-VSAN-MIB
●  CISCO-CFS-MIB
●  CISCO-FCPING-MIB
●  CISCO-FCTRACEROUTE-MIB
●  CISCO-FDMI-MIB
●  CISCO-FC-DEVICE-ALIAS-MIB
●  CISCO-WWNMGR-MIB
●  FCMGMT-MIB
●  CISCO-VEDM-MIB
●  CISCO-FCOE-MIB

Ethernet MIBs 
●  CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB
●  CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB

Configuration MIBs 
●  ENTITY-MIB
●  IF-MIB
●  CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
●  CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB
●  CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
●  CISCO-FLASH-MIB
●  CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB
●  CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB
●  CISCO-IP-IF-MIB
●  CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB
●  CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB
●  CISCO-NTP-MIB
●  CISCO-IMAGE-MIB
●  CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB
●  CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB
●  CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB
●  CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB
●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

Monitoring MIBs 
●  DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC
●  NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
●  DIFFSERV-MIB
●  CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB
●  CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB
●  CISCO-PROCESS-MIB
●  RMON-MIB
●  CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB
●  CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB

Security MIBs 
●  CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB
●  CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB
●  CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB
●  CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB
●  CISCO-RADIUS-MIB
●  CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB
●  TCP/IP MIBs
●  INET-ADDRESS-MIB
●  TCP-MIB
●  CISCO-TCP-MIB
●  UDP-MIB
●  IP-MIB
●  CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB
●  CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB
●  CISCO-PORTSECURITY- MIB

Miscellaneous MIBs 
●  START-MIB
●  CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB
●  CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB
●  CISCO-CDP-MIB
●  CISCO-RF-MIB
●  CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB
●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

Typical operating power/heat dissipation
660W

Maximum power/heat dissipation(Layer 2)
882W (without Layer 3 expansion module)

Maximum power (Layer 3)
972W (with Layer 3 expansion module)

Input voltage
100 to 240 VAC

Frequency
50 to 60 Hz

Efficiency
95 to 98% (50 to 100% load)

RoHS compliance
Yes