Front-to-back airflow with 10 front-accessed vertical module slots and an integrated cable management system, facilitates installation, operation, and cooling
18 front-accessed module slots with side-to-side airflow in a compact horizontal form factor with purpose-built integrated cable management eases operations and reduces complexity
The system uses dual dedicated supervisor modules
Midplane design supports flexible technology upgrades as your needs change and provides ongoing investment protection
THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 SERIES SUPERVISOR MODULE FEATURES:
Continuous system operation
Active and standby supervisor
Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths
Virtualization of the management plane
Integrated diagnostics and protocol decoding with an embedded control plane packet analyzer
Fully decoupled control plane and data plane with no hardware forwarding on the module
Distributed forwarding architecture, allowing independent upgrades of the supervisor and fabric
Transparent upgrade capacity and capability; designed to support 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
Superior operational efficiency
System locator and beacon LEDs for simplified operations
Dedicated out-of-band management processor for 'lights out' management
THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 FABRIC MODULES FEATURES:
High availability and redundancy
Nondisruptive addition and removal of fabric modules