Cisco Nexus 5596UP 2RU Chassis, with 2PS, 4 Fans, 48 Fixed 10GE Ports (N5K-C5596UP-FA)

●  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

●  Cisco Nexus 5596T: 32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ 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

●  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

●  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 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 port channel 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 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port channel 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

●  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

●  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

●  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

●  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, port channel, 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)