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Cisco Switch GuideScalable, intelligent LAN switching for campus, branch,and data center networks of all sizesCisco Nexus 7000, Catalyst 6500 andCatalyst 4500 Series Modular SwitchesCisco Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Catalyst 4900, Catalyst 3750-X, Catalyst 3750, Catalyst 3560-X,Catalyst 3560, Catalyst 2960-S, Catalyst 2960, and Fixed-Configuration Switches, Cisco Nexus2000 Fabric Extender, Nexus 4000 Blade Switches, Nexus 1000V Virtual Switches, and Optics
Cisco’s Portfolio of LAN SwitchesScalable, intelligent LAN switching for Campus, Branch, and Data Centernetworks of all sizes.This is your guide to Cisco’s portfolio of switches, the industry’s most advanced andversatile portfolio of modular, fixed-configuration, blade, and virtual LAN switches foryour campus, branch, or data center.Individually, these switches offer the performance and features required for nearly anydeployment, from traditional small workgroups, wiring closets, and network cores, tohighly virtualized and converged corporate data centers. Working together, they are thebuilding blocks of an integrated network that delivers scalable and intelligent servicesprotecting, optimizing, and growing your network as your business needs evolve.The network is the platform delivering business agility and efficiency. However, theproliferation of connected devices coupled with new requirements around secureapplication delivery, bandwidth-intense rich media applications, energy efficiency,as well as the need to deliver access to these applications anywhere, anytime, hasleft networks, and network managers, looking for holistic and simple solutions to theirbusiness challenges.Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking systems for organizations of every size,offers an architectural approach to networking that makes it easy for organizationsto adapt and grow within and across geographic boundaries. Through a secure andintelligent infrastructure that delivers non-stop application availability and performancecoupled with seamless scalability, supporting a growing number of connected devices,rich media applications, as well as physical and virtual resources in a convergedinfrastructures is made simple.
Cisco SwitchesQuick Reference GuideIntroductionCisco Switch Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Cisco Campus Switching Feature Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Cisco Data Center Switching Feature Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Cisco Switching Transition Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Cisco Modular SwitchesIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Cisco Nexus 7000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Cisco Fixed-Configuration SwitchesIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Nexus 5000 Series Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Nexus 3000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Cisco Catalyst 3750v2 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Cisco Catalyst 3560V2 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Cisco Catalyst Compact SwitchesCisco Catalyst 3560-C and Catalyst 2960-C Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Cisco Fabric Extender TechnologyNexus 2000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Blade SwitchesNexus 4000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Virtual SwitchesCisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267OpticsOptics Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
IntroductionSeries OverviewIntelligent Switching for the Integrated NetworkModular SwitchesCisco Nexus 7000 SeriesCisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches are Cisco’s Flagship modular switching platform for data center Unified Fabricdeployments and for highly scalable campus core deployments. They are designed for exceptional 10 GE, 40 GE and100 GE scalability with the industry’s highest resiliency features and unmatched deployment flexibility for the datacenter core, aggregation, access and campus core. It’s industry leading NX-OS innovations and robust feature setenable you to build the next generation network fabrics for both data centers and campus.System Scalability:Designed for up to 17Tbps ofswitching capacity and high density10 GE, 40 GE and 100 GE, themodular 9, 10- or 18-slot chassisscales up to 768 1 GE ports or 76810 GE ports or 96/32 40/100GEports. Paired with the Nexus 2000Series, the Nexus 7000 can scale to32 fabric extenders, supporting upto 1536 Gigabit Ethernet servers perCisco Nexus 7000 chassis.Network Scalability:Beyond the system scalability, theNexus 7000 offers several featuresto scale the network itself. CiscoFabricPath enables customers tomassively scale Layer 2 networksup to 160 Tbps without the useof spanning-tree. For IP networkscalability, Location/ID SeperationProtocol (LISP), enables IPportability and dynamic IP routelook-up significantly increasing thescalability of layer 3 IP networks.Operational Continuity:Designed from the ground up withthe goal of delivering continuousoperations, the Nexus 7000 andNX-OS deliver a predictable andhighly resilient switching platformfor the most demanding networkenvironments. With granular processmodularity, automatic fault isolationand containment, the industry’sonly true hitless In Service SoftwareUprade (ISSU) capability and tightlyintegrated hardware resiliencyfeatures, the Nexus 7000 runningNX-OS delivers the industry’smost reliable operating system foroperational continuity.4Network Consolidation andSegmentation:The Nexus 7000 offer numerousindustry leading innovations forconverging and segmenting thenetwork infrastructure, LANs andWANs, significantly lowering TCO.Virtual Device Contexts (VDC),virtualize a single physical switchinto multiple secure (PCI certified)logical switches for infrastructureconsolidation. FCoE enables LANand SAN network consolidation fromserver to storage, reducing networksprawl while increasing networkagility. Other key features that enableWAN and LAN segmentation andconvergence include MPLS, OTV,and VRF.Virtualization and CloudEnablement:The Nexus 7000 and NX-OSinnovations enable highly scalablevirtualization deployments forboth intra and inter data centerdeployments, essentially allowingany workload, any location atany scale. FabricPath enables ahighly scalable fabric for largevirtualized server deployments,enabling workload mobility acrossthe data center. OTV and LISPallow seamless workload mobilitybetween geographically separateddata centers and also for burstingworkloads to cloud providers.These and other features on theNexus 7000 establish the foundationfor large scale virtualization andcloud enablement.
From edge to core, Cisco switches provide a complete range of services for all levels ofapplication intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, virtualization, non-stopcommunications and operational manageability.Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Flagship Catalyst switching servicesplatform for core-distributiondeployments Virtual Switching System bolstersavailability and scales to 4-terabitcapacity Up to 160 gigabits per slot; 100Gigabit Ethernet ready Simplifies creation of separatelogical networks with Easy VirtualNetwork (EVN) Integrated services modulesenhance security, manageability,and wireless controlEfficiently scale, virtualize, secure,and manage your networkremotely with Cisco Catalyst6500 Series Switches. Offeringa high-performance, feature-richplatform suitable for deployment incampus, data center, WAN, and MetroEthernet networks, the Cisco Catalyst6500 Series provides a strongfoundation for Borderless Networks,so you can connect anyone,anywhere, at any time.Scale Performance andNetwork Services 2 terabits per second (Tbps) fabricdelivers 80 Gbps switching capacityper slot and scales to 4 Tbpssystem capacity with Cisco CatalystVirtual Switching System (VSS) 40G-capable system supports upto 360 10G ports and 1068 1G portsper VSS systemVirtual Switching System Activates all available bandwidthacross redundant Catalyst6500 systems and eliminatesassymmetric routingIntegrates Services andOperational Efficiency Helps unify, simplify, and economizeyour network with next-generationintegrated services modules Supports interchassis statefulfailover and provides deterministicsubsecond recovery Facilitates multiple generationsof components on one chassisthrough a modular design Provides single point ofmanagement Monitors switches across thenetwork with Switched PortAnalyzer (SPAN)/Remote SwitchedPort Analyzer (RSPAN) andvirtually connects an analyzer toalmost any port on the networkwith Encapsulated Remote SPAN(ERSPAN) Eliminates need for First-HopResiliency Protocol (FHRP),supports simplified loop-freetopologiesNetwork Virtualization Offers infrastructure consolidationby providing segmentation, pathisolation, privacy, limited fatesharing, membership definition,and address space separationtechnologies Delivers end-to-end networkvirtualization using IP/MPLStechnologies.Security Provides application visibilitythrough flexible, egress, sampledNetflow, and CPU PreservingNetflow Export Offers image recovery and consolelogging through the ConnectivityManagement Processor (CMP) Delivers onboard packet capturewith Mini Port Analyzer Identifies (802.1x suite) , tags (SGT),encrypts (MacSec), and enforces(Security Group Access ControlList) with Cisco TrustSec Supports network device admissioncontrol (NDAC) and endpointadmission control (EAC) Provides investment protection withingress/egress TrustSec Reflector Supervisor Engine 2T supports upto 720 mpps of IPv4 and 390 mppsof IPv6 Provides large table sizes forscalable deployment with protectedcontrol plane.5
IntroductionSeries OverviewIntelligent Switching for the Integrated NetworkModular Switches (continued)Cisco Catalyst 4500 SeriesCisco Catalyst 4500-E Series modular switches enable a high performance, mobile, and secure user experience.The Catalyst 4500-E Series is Cisco’s lead access and collapsed access/aggregation platform for BorderlessNetworks. Offering up to 848 Gbps in switching capacity and 250 Mpps in throughput, Catalyst 4500 E-seriesswitches are optimized for unified communication with high density POE and POE , embedded security with CiscoTrustSec and enable maximum uptime for voice, video and critical applications with services like Stateful Switchover,non-stop Forwarding, and In-service software upgrades.Unified Communications:Cisco pre-standard and IEEE802.3af PoE Support. 20w PoEsupport for 802.11n access points.Up to 60 watts per port withE-Series line cards. ExtensiveQoS features with up to 8 userconfigurable queues per port.Non-stop Communications:Redundant supervisor engineswith In Service Software Upgrade(ISSU), non-stop Forwarding/Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO)offering 50 ms failover; Applicationvisibility with WireShark, Campusvirtualization with EVN (EasyVirtual Network); redundantpower supplies with power circuitredundancy; hot-swappablefan trays with redundant fans.Simplified Operations:Minimize network operationaltime with ISSU, EEM, AutoQoS,Smartports RSPAN; TDR, OIR,Flexible NetFlow for applicationvisibility, Cisco Prime, and LMS.6Comprehensive Security:Integrated Network AdmissionControl (NAC) and Comprehensivesecurity with Cisco TrustSecand 802.1x, H/W-based ControlPlane Policing (CoPP); integratedman-in-the-middle and DoS attackmitigation; NetFlow; access controllists for IPv4 and IPv6 at wire rateand SSH.Flexible Options:3,6,7 and 10-slot chassissupporting numerous connectivityconfigurations with up to 48Gbps per slot capacity, 10/100,10/100/1000 (PoE or non-PoE),GE SFP Fiber and 10 GE line cards.Mix and match classic line cardswith high performance E-Seriesline cards for maximum flexibility.High Port Density:Up to 384 Fast Ethernet or GigabitEthernet Ports (PoE or non PoE)and up to 100 10 Gigabit Ethernet(10 GBE) ports.Investment Protection:Evolutionary centralized modularArchitecture, media flexibility,and scalability of the Catalyst4500 Series delivers maximuminvestment protection withbackward and forwardcompatibility across severalgenerations dating back to 1999.
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IntroductionSeries Overview (continued)Fixed-Configuration SwitchesCisco Nexus 5000 SeriesCisco Nexus 3000 SeriesThe Cisco Nexus 5000 SeriesSwitches help you transform the datacenter with innovative, standardsbased, multilayer, multiprotocol, andmultipurpose Ethernet-based fabric.Now with the Unified Ports functionalityyou can help enable any transport overEthernet, including Layer 2 and Layer3 traffic, and storage traffic, all on onecommon data center-class platform.Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch is a highperformance, high density, sub-microsecond latency ethernet switch, whichis part of the brand new Cisco Nexus3000 Series Switches. This compact1RU form factor 10GbE switch provideswire-rate L2 and L3 switching andfuture-proofs networks with 40GbEstandards-based technologies whilealso being backward compatible with1GbE. Cisco Nexus 3064 is ideal forfinancial co-location deploymentsrequiring support for advanced unicastand multicast routing protocol featuresat ultra-low latency.Cisco Nexus 3000Series Switches extends the comprehensive proven innovations of CiscoData Center Business Advantage intothe HFT market too. The switch doesso by delivering functionalities such asultra-low latency and wire-rate L2/L3switching on data center class NX-OSoperating system. Based on the Cisco NX-OSoperating system, that is resilient,efficient, virtualized and extensible High performance, low latencysystem with up to 1.92 Tbpsswitching fabric and 1428 Mppsforwarding rate Front-to-back cooling supportsefficient data center hot- andcold-aisle designs Unified ports provides flexibility inchoosing SAN and LAN port optionsconsistent with the virtualized datacenter and offer a migration pathto FCoE L AN and SAN Convergence readythrough FCoE-based unified fabricand Fibre Channel support in alossless Ethernet service platform.Energy efficiency achieved with theconvergence of the networks Virtualization-aware networkingthrough virtualization optimizedservices and mobility by mappingvirtual machines to network profiles Supports the extension of the fabricextender technology into the serversand virtual machines via AdapterFEX and VM-FEX technologies.Nexus 5000 Series Switches actsas the single point of networkmanagement for these servers andvirtual machines Pair with Nexus 5000 for up to 24fabric extenders per Cisco Nexus5548P switchThe key challenges addressed by theCisco Nexus 3000 series include: I ncreased application sensitivity tonetwork latency I ncreasing bandwidth requirementsdue to increasing applicationworkloads N eed for supporting advancedrouting protocols with resiliency N eed to measure network latencybetween serversKey highlights of Cisco Nexus 3000Series Switches: Ultra Low Latency- Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switchesdelivers ultra-low latency thattranslates to faster data transactionsthereby resulting in increasedrevenue for the financial companies. W ire-rate 10 Gigabit EthernetSwitching on all 64 10GbE ports- Layer 2/3 switching up to 1.2Tbps,over 950Mpps (Million Packets persecond) in a compact 1RU formfactor switch.- Future-proof with 40GbEstandards-based support8 Purpose-built on NX-OS operatingsystem with comprehensive, proveninnovations- Modular OS built from the groundup for resiliency- Full L3 routing protocol suitesincluding BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2- Integration with Cisco DCNM andXML management tools- Support for Precision Time Protocol(IEEE-1588) to synchronize systemclocks with nanosecond accuracyCisco Catalyst 4500-X SeriesThe Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Seriesoffers best-in-class Layer 2 andLayer 3 services in a small formfactor for space-constrained LANaggregation in campus and branchoffice deployments. The switchsimplifies aggregation deploymentsusing the new Cisco IOS XE SoftwareOperating System with severalimportant innovations such as virtualization, application visibility, and hostedapplications such as Wireshark. Layer 2–4 switching and intelligentservices with 250-Mpps IPv4 and125-Mpps IPv6 Rich IP Multicast, quality of service(QoS), and security Flexible NetFlow and Wireshark Simplified virtualization andapplication monitoring Wire-rate performance delivering800 Gbps Configurations from sixteen to forty10 Gigabit Ethernet ports Every port configurable in 1 or 10Gigabit Ethernet mode Resilient with dual hot-swappableinternal AC or DC power supplies Hot-swappable fans with N 1redundancy
Cisco Catalyst 4900 SeriesCisco Catalyst 3750-X SeriesCisco Catalyst 3750V2 SeriesFixed-configuration switches offeringhigh-performance and highestavailability in 1–2RU configuration,optimized for data center top of rackserver aggregation and for spaceconstrained branch collapsed core/distribution LAN aggregation.Enterprise-class stackable switcheswith innovative features such as CiscoStackPower, Power over EthernetPlus (PoE ), and MAC security.for enterprise branch offices andmid-market organizations.Stackable switches offering multilayerswitching and Cisco StackWise technology for enterprise branchoffices and mid-market organizations. tandalone fixed-configuration forSlow-latency and wire-speed switching ire-rate performance with 96-320WGbps non-blocking switching fabric ayer 2–4 switching and intelligentLservices with dynamic IP routingand IPv6 onfigurations from 48 10/100/1000Cports to 24 10 GBE ports winGig converter module forTmigrating from 1 Gigabit Ethernet(SFP) to 10 GBE (X2) on 4900M ual, hot-swappable internal AC orDDC power supplies Hot-swappable fan trays 4 and 48 10/100/1000 PoE and2non-PoE models with optionalfour 1 GB Ethernet SFP or two 10GB Ethernet SFP uplink networkmodules oE with 30W power on all portsPin 1 rack unit (RU) isco StackPower: Innovative,Cindustry-first feature for sharingpower among stack members isco StackWise Plus
Cisco Nexus 7000, Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 4500 Series Modular Switches Cisco Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Catalyst 4900, Catalyst 3750-X, Catalyst 3750, Catalyst 3560-X, Catalyst 3560, Catalyst 2960-S, Catalyst 2960, and Fixed-Configuration Switches, Cisco Nexus
