The Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot Switch has two dedicated half-slot supervisors to provide full redundancy, stateful supervisor switchover, and hitless In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) capabilities
The Cisco Nexus 7706 has six fabric module slots to provide simultaneously active fabric channels to each of the I/O and supervisor modules, through the parallel forwarding fabric architecture, the Cisco Nexus 7706 can achieve 10.5 Tbps of forwarding capacity or more
Front-to-back airflow helps ensure that the Cisco Nexus 7706 addresses the requirement for hot-aisle and cold-aisle deployments to help provide efficient cooling
The system uses three redundant fan trays for cooling, each fan tray is composed of independent variable-speed fans that automatically adjust to the ambient temperature, helping reduce power consumption in well-managed facilities while helping enable optimum operation of the switch, the system also allows hot swapping of fan trays without negatively affecting the system
The Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot Switch can have up to four 3-kilowatt (kW) power supplies, the smaller power supply configuration provides more flexibility and greater control in power provisioning, the four power supply bays are designed for future growth