Cisco Unified Fabric and Nexus Product Portfolio
Iqbal Syed
Product Manager, Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Session Agenda
• Cisco Unified Fabric
• Nexus Modular (N7K) Portfolio Innovations
• Nexus Fixed (N2K-N6K) Portfolio Innovations
• SAN Innovations
• NX-OS Innovations
• References
Cisco Connect, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 29-30, 2014
Cisco Unified Fabric
Convergence
Scale
Network
Storage
Management
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Intelligence
Data Center Fabric Delivering on DC Application Needs
Application-Driven
Fabric-Based
Private Cloud
Distributed
Private Cloud
Compute
Compute
Storage
Storage
Services
Services
Comp Comp Stora Stora Servic Servic
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Public Cloud
Comp Comp Stora Stora Servic Servic
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Creating a Programmable Fabric
Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE)
Applications
Intelligence &
Guidance
Service
Orchestration
Analytics
Programmability
Programmability
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Intelligent
Network
Cisco Multi-Protocol Architecture for LAN and SAN
Industry’s Broadest Switching Portfolio
Cisco® MDS
9700 Series
Cisco MDS
9100 Series
Cisco MDS
9200 Series
Cisco
Nexus 3000
Cisco® MDS
9500 Series
Cisco® MDS 9250
Multiservice
Series
Cisco
Nexus
5000/
5500/5600
Cisco
Nexus 6000
Cisco
Cisco
Nexus 1000V Nexus 2000
10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System
From Hypervisor to Core
Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)
Single Point of Management
CONSISTENT and SIMPLIFIED
Features, Management and Programmability
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Cisco
Nexus
7000/7700
Nexus Modular (N7K)
Portfolio Innovations
Extending The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Building On Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Proven Technology
Cisco Nexus® 7000 Series
9,000+
Customers
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Switches
Cisco Nexus 7700
Platform Switches
Cisco Nexus F3-Series
Modules
NEW
45,000+
Chassis
NEW
8 Million+
Ports
Shipped
Common
Common
Common
Industry’s Most Proven Data Center Switching Platform
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Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches
Value Proposition Of The Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform
Fabric
Cisco Nexus® 7700
18-Slot
1.32 Tbps
Smaller
26 RU
Cisco Nexus 7700
10-Slot
9 RU
14 RU
Cisco Nexus 7700
6-Slot
33% more compact
Environmental
True front-to-back airflow
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True Front-To-Back Airflow
Streamlined Operations For Next-Generation Data Center Designs
Perforated Faceplate for
True Front-to-Back
Cooling
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Latest Addition: Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot Chassis
Optimal Footprint For Small To Medium-Sized Data Centers
Front-to-Back
Airflow
9 RU
2 Supervisors
Maximum Density
192 x 10-Gbps Ports or
96 x 40-Gbps Ports or
48 x 100-Gbps Ports
4 I/O Modules
4 3-kW Power
Supplies
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Configuration Example
1 F3-Series with 40G Ports:
24 40-Gbps Ports +
2 F3-Series with 10G Ports:
96 10-Gbps Ports +
Empty Slot for Future Growth
Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot Chassis
Closer look
4 payload slots
(1.3T/slot)
Up to 6 fabric modules
(behind fan trays)
Redundant Supervisor
Engines
9RU
3 fan trays
32”
depth
Front-to-back airflow
Rear
Front
Up to 4 3000W AC/DC
power supplies
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Evolution Of The Modules
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series ASIC Evolution And Feature Consolidation
Next
Full NetFlow
VXLAN
F3(2013)
(2012)
OTV
MPLS
Sampled
NetFlow
F2(2011)
F1(2010)
• Layer 2 Multipath
• FCoE
Large Tables
and Buffers
LISP
Layer 3
VPLS
Layer 2
Cisco® FabricPath
• Adding Layer 3
• 10-Gbps Highest Scale
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M1XL
(2008)
FEX
Dynamic
Fabric
Automation
FCoE
• Cisco Catalyst®
Heritage
M2XL
• Introducing
40 and 100 Gbps
• 40 and 100 Gbps at Scale
• M-Series Feature Parity
• Converged
Architecture and Scale
F3 ASIC – Value in Flexibility and Simplification
The most comprehensive ASIC for the Data Center
FabricPath
Extensive Packet Manipulation* :
 FabricPath and DFA Support
FCoE
Next-Gen Multi-Tenant Fabrics
 OTV, LISP and VxLAN
IP
Hardware Overlays for Mobility and
Virtualization
MPLS
OTV
 MPLS (Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs)
High Performance MPLS deployments
F3 ASIC
VPLS
VxLAN
 Classic Layer2 and Layer3
Innovation but also core functionalities
* Not all features may be enabled at FCS
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LISP
Converged Network Infrastructure
DFA
 FCoE
Four F3-Series Modules
Leadership, Features, And Continued Investment
40G
100G
10G
Nexus 7700
F3 24-port 40G Module
N77-F324FQ-25
Nexus 7700
F3 48-port 10G Module
Nexus 7700
F3 12-port 100G Module
N77-F348XP-23
N77-F312CK-26
Nexus 7000
F3 12-port 40G Module
N7K-F312FQ-25
Shipping
NOW !
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No New
Product Hold !
Software
NX-OS 6.2(6)
Nexus 7700 F3 48-Port 1G/10G Module

48-port 1G/10G SFP/SFP+ module

Wire-rate L2/L3 IPv4/IPv6

Multi-protocol – Classic Ethernet, FabricPath,
DCB/FCoE
480G/slot
714Mpps/slot
6µsec latency cross-fabric

OTV, MPLS, LISP, GRE, VXLAN
Buffering: 1.5MB VOQ/port and up to 12MB with
user-configurable buffer sharing
N77-F348XP-23
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Feature Rich:

64K FIB TCAM/64K adjacency table

64K MAC address table

Fabric Services Accelerator (FSA)

Nexus 2000 (FEX) support

8 ports with 802.1AE LinkSec support
Note: Not all the features will be available at FCS
Nexus 7700 and Nexus 7000 F3 40G



Nexus 7700 24-port 40G QSFP+ module /
Nexus 7000 12-port 40G QSFP+ module

Breakout cable support

Feature Rich:
Wire-rate L2/L3 IPv4/IPv6
960G / 480G per slot – 1.4 / 0.7 Bpps/slot
Multi-protocol – Classic Ethernet, FabricPath,
DCB/FCoE*
~6µsec latency cross-fabric
OTV, MPLS, LISP, GRE, VXLAN
Buffering:
6MB VOQ per 40G port – Up to 12MB with userconfigurable buffer sharing
Nexus 7700 F3 40G
N77-F324FQ-25

64K FIB TCAM/64K adjacency table

64K MAC address table

Fabric Services Accelerator (FSA)
Nexus 7000 F3 40G
N7K-F312FQ-25
Note: Not all the features will be available at FCS
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Using port breakout

Also refers to physically separating 10G channels
Direct-attach copper breakout cables
Fiber breakout cables (not included with optics transceivers)

Breakout per-port, not per line card. No need to reload

Supported at FCS on the Nexus 7000 12p 40G F3 module

Supported in 6.2(8) on the Nexus 7700 24p 40G F3 module
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Seamless 10G
aggregation into
dense 40G/100G ports
F3-Series 40G Offering
QSFP BiDi support
Technology
12-fiber MPO
Value Proposition
•
Utilize existing duplex fiber commonly deployed in
10G environment today
•
Reduce 40G transition cost by eliminating the need
to upgrade fiber plant
•
75% average savings over parallel fiber for new
deployments
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Duplex LC
Support
Platform
Support Release
and Timeframe
Nexus 7000
M2 40G Module
6.2(6)
Q4CY13
Nexus 7000/7700
F3 40G Module
6.2(6)
Q4CY13
Nexus 7700 F3 100G Modules

12-port 100G CPAK module

Breakout cable support

Wire-rate L2/L3 IPv4/IPv6

Feature Rich:
1.2T per slot – 1.8 Bpps/slot
Multi-protocol – Classic Ethernet, FabricPath,
DCB/FCoE*
~6µsec latency cross-fabric
OTV, MPLS, LISP, GRE, VXLAN

Buffering:
12MB VOQ per 100G port

64K FIB TCAM/64K adjacency table

64K MAC address table

Fabric Services Accelerator (FSA)
F3 100G
N77-F312CK-26
Note: Not all the features will be available at FCS
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Nexus Fixed (N2K – N6K)
Portfolio Innovations
Cisco Nexus 6000 Platforms
Nexus 6004 EF
Shipping!
• Up to 8 Expansion Modules
• 12p 40G QSFP+ Ethernet/FCoE Ports
• Flexibility to use 4x10G or 40G
Nexus 6001-64T
Nexus 6001-64P
• 48 Fixed 1/10G BaseT Ports, 4p QSFP+
• 48 Fixed 1/10G SFP+ Ports, 4p QSFP+
Line Rate Layer 2 / Layer 3
Traditional Ethernet or Fibre Channel over Ethernet
~1us Latency on Fiber ports
Same binary Image across all Platforms
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Cisco Nexus 5500
Offering Choice and Flexibility for Varied Deployments
NEXUS 5500 Platform
Nexus 5548UP 1RU Switch (Unified Ports)
Nexus 5596UP 2RU Switch (Unified Ports)
Nexus 5596T 2RU Switch (10G BaseT)
Nexus 5548 Layer 3 Daughter Card
16p 10G Unified Ports GEM
12p 10G BaseT GEM
4p QSFP GEM
Nexus 5596 Layer 3 Expansion Module
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Introducing Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
VXLAN – Bridging & Routing
75%
Dynamic Fabric Automation
40G Uplinks, Bigger buffers and tables
25 Million
Programmability
Nexus 5600
Ports Shipped
Network Visibility
20,000+
Lower End-to-end Latency
Customers
Line Rate L3
Nexus 5500
Unified
Ports
FEX
FabricPath
Architecture
Market Share*
FCoE
125K+
Chassis till date
Next Generation Cisco Nexus 5500
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Cisco Nexus Advantage
New Chassis Form Factors
Nexus 5672UP
Nexus 56128P
1 RU - 48 port 10G Ethernet
(16 Ports Unified)
2RU - Upto 96 ports 10G
Ethernet/FCoE, 8 ports 40G
Ethernet/FCoE
6 port 40G
List Price: $32,000
Unified Port on Modules
List Price:Chassis: $36K, Module: $12K
New Form Factors and Higher Port Density
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Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
Available Since March 2014
Cisco Nexus 5672UP
• 48 Fixed 1/10G SFP+ Ports of which 16 Ports Unified
BACK OF
SWITCH
FRONT OF
SWITCH
• 16 Unified Ports provide 2/4/8G FC, 10/40G Ethernet/FCoE
• Traditional Ethernet or FCoE or FC
• 6x 40G
QSFP+ Ports
• Flexibility to use
4x10G or 40G
Redundant 1+1
AC/DC Power
Supplies
Redundant 1+1
AC/DC Power
Supplies
Choice of
Reversible
Airflow
Redundant
Fan Modules
Mgmt 0,
Console,
USB
Compact 1RU Switch in the Nexus 5600 Platform
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Cisco Nexus 5600 Series
Available Since April CY14
Cisco Nexus 56128P Chassis
• 48 Fixed 10G SFP+ Ports
FRONT OF
SWITCH
• 2 Expansion Slots
• Expansion module provides 24 Unified ports 10G
Ethernet/FCoE or 2/4/8G FC and 2 ports 40G
Ethernet/FCoE
• 4x 40G QSFP+ Ports
• Flexibility to use
4x10G or 40G
BACK OF
SWITCH
• Upto 8x 40G ports
and 96x 10G ports
Choice of
Reversible
Airflow
Redundant n+1
AC/DC Power
Supplies
Mgmt 0,
Console,
USB
Redundant n+1
AC/DC Power
Supplies
Redundant Fan Modules
Compact 2RU Switch in the Nexus 5600 Platform
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SAN Innovations
Next-Gen Storage Director
Cisco MDS 9710
48-port 16G FC Line Card
Shipping since Q2CY13
THE
OF ANY DIRECTOR
INDUSTRY’S MOST
48-port 10-Gbps
FCoE Line Card
Shipping
Now !
UNMATCHED
Without forklift – 24Tbps Capacity
Upto 384 16G FC Line-Rate Ports
IT Operations & Knowledge
Software Upgrades (ISSU)
Power, Fabrics, Fans
Failure Domains
High Performance Connectivity
Mainframe Connectivity
VSAN, Inter-VSAN Routing
WITH MULTI-PROTOCOL INNOVATIONS
INVESTMENT PROTECTION
for the Next Decade!
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32G FC and
40G FCoE Ready
Platform
Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch
Next-Gen Storage Services
FOR STORAGE SERVICES
Shipping
Now !
Service Device Sprawl
FCIP
High-Bandwidth SAN
Extension Across MAN/WAN
IO ACCELERATOR
Accelerate Tape Backup
and Disk Replication
DATA MOBILITY MANAGER
Migrate Data Between
Heterogeneous Arrays
Unmatched Flexibility for Cisco MDS and Cisco Nexus
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NX-OS Innovations
Virtual Extensible LAN (VxLAN)
VxLAN Encapsulated Packet
VxLAN Tunnel Endpoints with Layer 2 and Layer 3 Gateways
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Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA)
Spine
Leaf node
Services leaf
Simplified
Management
Border leaf
Spine node
L2, L3
Leaf
Compute
Fabric
Management
Compute
Services
Workload
Automation
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Services
IP NGN
Optimized
Networking
Virtual Fabrics
One Platform Kit – onePK
Enhanced Interactions with the Network OS
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References
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Nexus 7700 Switches Datasheet
728187.html
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Nexus 7700 F3 40G Module Datasheet
728410.html
www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/data_sheet_c78-
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Nexus 7700 F3 100G Module Datasheet
728423.html
www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/data_sheet_c78-
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Cisco Nexus 5600 Landing Page
switches/index.html
•
Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Landing Page
center-virtualization/unified-fabric/dynamic_fabric_automation.html
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www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/data_sheet_c78-
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-5000-series-
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-