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1. Ajaj CISCO Data Sheet Cisco Nexus 3548 and 3524 Switches Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches Overview The Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches are a comprehensive portfolio of 1 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches built from a switch on a chip SoC architecture Introduced in April 2011 this series of switches provides line rate Layer 2 and 3 performance and is suitable for top of the rack ToR architecture This series of switches has established itself as a leader in high frequency trading HFT high performance computing HPC and big data environments by pairing high performance and low latency with innovations in performance visibility automation and time synchronization Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform Overview The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform further extends the leadership of the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series by including the innovative Cisco Algorithm Boost or Algo Boost technology Algo Boost technology built into the switch application specific integrated circuit ASIC allows the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform to achieve exceptional Layer 2 and 3 switching latencies of less than 200 nanoseconds ns In addition Algo Boost offers several innovations in latency forwarding and performance visibility capabilities e Three configurable modes for low latency gt Normal mode This mode is excellent for environments needing low latency and high scalability In this mode latencies as low as 250 ns can be paired with the higher of the Layer 2 a2. DC Power Supply Forward airflow port side exhaust N3K PDC 350W B N2K 3K 350W DC Power Supply Reversed airflow port side intake 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 12 of 14 Software Licenses N3548 BAS1K9 Nexus 3000 Layer 3 Base License N3524 LAN1K9 Nexus 3524 Layer 3 LAN Enterprise License Requires N3K BAS1K9 License N3548 LAN1K9 Nexus 3548 Layer 3 LAN Enterprise License Requires N3K BAS1K9 License N3548 ALGK9 Nexus 3500 Algo Boost License N3548 24P UPG Nexus 3524 additional 24 port license Spares NXA FAN 30CFM F N2K 3K Individual Fan Forward airflow port side exhaust Spare NXA FAN 30CFM B N2K 3K Individual Fan Reversed airflow port side intake Spare N2000 PAC 400W N2K 3K 400W AC Power Supply Forward airflow port side exhaust Spare N2000 PAC 400W B N2K 3K 400W AC Power Supply Reversed airflow port side intake Spare N2200 PDC 400W N2K 3K 400W DC Power Supply Forward airflow port side exhaust Spare N3K PDC 350W B N3K Series 350W DC Power Supply Reversed airflow port side intake Spare N3K C3064 ACC KIT Nexus 3548 Accessory Kit same as Nexus 3064 Cables and Optics SFP 10G SR 10GBASE SR SFP Module SFP 10G LR 10GBASE LR SFP Module SFP 10G ER Cisco 10GBASE ER SFP Module for SMF SFP H10GB CU1M 10GBASE CU SFP Cable 1 Meter passive twinax SFP H10GB CU3M 10GBASE CU SFP Cable 3 Meter passive twinax SFP H10GB
3. Gigabit Ethernet port The resulting interface is fully compliant with the IEEE standard for 40 Gigabit Ethernet and thus is interoperable with any other 40 Gigabit Ethernet device regardless of interface form factor including Quad SFP QSFP Table 3 Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform 40 Gigabit Transceiver Support Matrix SFP 10G SR 10GBASE SR SFP module multimode fiber MMF QSFP 4SFP10G CU1M QSFP to 4 x SFP 10 Gbps passive copper splitter cable 1m Twinax cable QSFP 4SFP10G CU3M QSFP to 4 x SFP 10 Gbps passive copper splitter cable 3m Twinax cable QSFP 4SFP10G CU5M QSFP to 4 x SFP 10 Gbps passive copper splitter cable 5m Twinax cable Table 4 lists the supported 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver options Table 4 Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform 10 Gigabit Transceiver Support Matrix SFP 10G SR 10GBASE SR SFP module MMF SFP 10G LR 10GBASE LR SFP module single mode fiber SMF SFP 10G ER Cisco 10GBASE ER SFP module for SMF DWDM SFP10G 10GBASE DWDM modules multiple varieties SFP H10GB CU1M 10GBASE CU SFP cable 1m Twinax cable SFP H10GB CU3M 10GBASE CU SFP cable 3m Twinax cable SFP H10GB CU5M 10GBASE CU SFP cable 5m Twinax cable SFP H10GB ACU7M Active Twinax cable assembly 7m SFP H10GB ACU10M Active Twinax cable assembly 10m The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform is compatible with existing Gigabit Ethernet infrastructures Both the uplink and downlink 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces can also operate in 100 Megabit Ethernet and 1 G
4. at its foundation Cisco NX OS helps ensure continuous availability and sets the standard for mission critical data center environments The self healing and highly modular design of Cisco NX OS makes zero impact operations a reality and provides exceptional operational flexibility Focused on the requirements of the data center Cisco NX OS provides a robust and comprehensive feature set that meets the networking requirements of present and future data centers With an XML interface and a command line interface CLI like that of Cisco IOS Software Cisco NX OS provides state of the art implementations of relevant networking standards as well as a variety of true data center class Cisco innovations Cisco NX OS Software Benefits Table 1 summarizes the benefits that Cisco NX OS Software offers Table 1 Benefits of Cisco NX OS Software eB Common software throughout the data center Cisco NX OS runs on all Cisco data center switch platforms Cisco Nexus 7000 5000 4000 and 1000V Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders Software compatibility Cisco NX OS interoperates with Cisco products running any variant of Cisco IOS Software and also with any networking OS that conforms to the networking standards listed as supported in this data sheet Modular software design Cisco NX OS is designed to support distributed multithreaded processing Cisco NX OS modular processes are instantiated on demand each in a se
5. serial console port e One USB port 4 PPS output will be enabled in a future software revision 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 2 of 14 e Locator LED e Locator LED button Support for both forward port side exhaust and reversed port side intake airflow schemes is available Forward airflow is useful when the port side of the switch sits on a hot aisle and the power supply side sits on a cold aisle Reverse airflow is useful when the power supply side of the switch sits on a hot aisle and the port side sits ona cold aisle Colored handles on each fan or power supply clearly indicate the airflow direction as seen in Figures 2 and 3 Figure 2 Cisco Nexus 3548 with Blue Handles Indicating Forward Airflow Cisco Nexus 3524 Switch The Cisco Nexus 3524 Switch Figure 4 the second member of the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform is a compact 1RU form factor 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch providing line rate Layer 2 and 3 switching with ultra low latency The switch has 48 ports but only 24 ports are active by default A license is required to enable the remaining 24 ports The switch runs the industry leading Cisco NX OS Software operating system providing customers with a comprehensive feature set including Algo Boost technology and functions that are widely deployed globally The Cisco Nexus 3524 contains no PHY chips allowing low latency and low power consumption Th
6. 0 ft 0 to 3000m Mean time between failure MTBF 317 030 hours Table 8 Software Features Description Specifications Layer 2 e 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 MSTP IEEE 802 1s 64 instances Spanning Tree PortFast Spanning Tree Root Guard Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance Cisco EtherChannel technology up to 24 ports per EtherChannel LACP IEEE 802 3ad IEEE 802 1ax Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2 3 and 4 information Jumbo frames on all ports up to 9216 bytes Storm control multicast and broadcast Link level flow control IEEE 802 3x Layer 3 Layer 3 interfaces Routed ports on interfaces switch virtual interfaces SVIs PortChannels and subinterfaces total 1024 24 way Equal Cost Multipath ECMP 4096 ACL entries Routing protocols Static RIPv2 EIGRP OSPF and BGP HSRP and VRRP e ACL Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACLs e VRF VRF Lite IP VPN VRF aware unicast BGP OSPF and RIP and VRF aware multicast VRF route leaking e Jumbo frame support up to 9216 bytes 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 8 of 14 Multicast e Multicast PIMv2 PIM Sparse Mode PIM SM SSM and BiDir Bootstrap router BSR Auto RP and Static RP e MSDP and Anyca
7. Border Routers RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart e RFC 4750 OSPF Version 2 MIB RIP RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB Extension e RFC 2082 RIPv2 MD5 Authentication e RFC 2453 RIP Version 2 IP Services RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol UDP e RFC 783 Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP RFC 791 IP e RFC 792 Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP e RFC 793 TCP RFC 826 ARP RFC 854 Telnet RFC 959 RFC 1027 RFC 1305 RFC 1519 RFC 1542 RFC 1591 RFC 1812 RFC 2131 RFC 2338 IP Multicast RFC 2236 RFC 3376 RFC 3446 RFC 3569 RFC 3618 RFC 4601 RFC 4607 RFC 4610 RFC 5015 RFC 5132 FTP Proxy ARP Network Time Protocol NTP Version 3 Classless Interdomain Routing CIDR BootP Relay Domain Name System DNS Client IPv4 Routers DHCP Helper VRRP Internet Group Management Protocol version 2 Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 An Overview of SSM Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP Source Specific Multicast for IP Anycast RP using PIM PIM BiDir IP Multicast MIB 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Anycast Rendezvous Point Mechanism Using PIM and MSDP Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode PIM SM Protocol Specification Revised Page 11 of 14 Software Requirements Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches are supported by Cisco NX OS Software Release 5 0 and later Cisco NX OS interoperates with any net
8. CU5M 10GBASE CU SFP Cable 5 Meter passive twinax SFP H10GB ACU7M Active Twinax Cable Assembly 7m SFP H10GB ACU10M Active Twinax Cable Assembly 10m GLC T 1000BASE T SFP GLC SX MM GE SFP LC Connector SX Transceiver GLC SX MMD 1000BASE SX SFP transceiver module MMF 850nm DOM GLC LH SM GE SFP LC Connector LX LH Transceiver GLC LH SMD 1000BASE LX LH SFP transceiver module MMF SMF 1310nm DOM Warranty The Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches have a 1 year limited hardware warranty The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10 day turnaround from receipt of a return materials authorization RMA Service and Support Cisco offers a wide range of services to help accelerate your success in deploying and optimizing the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series in your data center The innovative Cisco Services offerings are delivered through a unique combination of people processes tools and partners and are focused on helping you increase operation efficiency and improve your data center network Cisco Advanced Services uses an architecture led approach to help you align your data center infrastructure with your business goals and achieve long term value Cisco SMARTnet Service helps you resolve mission critical problems with direct access at any time to Cisco network experts and award winning resources With this service you can take advantage of the Cisco Smart Call Home service capability which offers proactive diagnosti
9. Cisco Call Home e Cisco DCNM e Active buffer monitoring e PTP IEEE 1588 boundary clock 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 9 of 14 Table 9 Management and Standards Support MIB support Standards Generic MIBs e SNMPv2 SMI e CISCO SMI e SNMPv2 TM e SNMPv2 TC IANA ADDRESS FAMILY NUMBERS MIB IANAifType MIB e ANAiprouteprotocol MIB e HCNUM TC e CISCO TC e SNMPv2 MIB SNMP COMMUNITY MIB SNMP FRAMEWORK MIB e SNMP NOTIFICATION MIB e SNMP TARGET MIB e SNMP USER BASED SM MIB e SNMP VIEW BASED ACM MIB CISCO SNMP VACM EXT MIB Ethernet MIBs e CISCO VLAN MEMBERSHIP MIB Configuration MIBs ENTITY MIB IF MIB e CISCO ENTITY EXT MIB e CISCO ENTITY FRU CONTROL MIB e CISCO ENTITY SENSOR MIB e CISCO SYSTEM MIB e CISCO SYSTEM EXT MIB e CISCO IP IF MIB CISCO IF EXTENSION MIB CISCO NTP MIB e CISCO IMAGE MIB e CISCO IMAGE UPGRADE MIB IEEE 802 1D Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802 1p CoS Prioritization IEEE 802 1Q VLAN Tagging IEEE 802 32 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802 3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802 3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802 1ab LLDP 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information IEEE 802 3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP IEEE 802 1ax Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP Monitoring MIBs e NOTIFICATION LOG MIB e CISCO SYSLOG EXT MIB e CISCO PROC
10. ESS MIB e RMON MIB CISCO RMON CONFIG MIB e CISCO HC ALARM MIB Security MIBs e CISCO AAA SERVER MIB e CISCO AAA SERVER EXT MIB e CISCO COMMON ROLES MIB e CISCO COMMON MGMT MIB e CISCO SECURE SHELL MIB Miscellaneous MIBs e CISCO LICENSE MGR MIB e CISCO FEATURE CONTROL MIB e CISCO CDP MIB e CISCO RF MIB Layer 3 and Routing MIBs e UDP MIB e TCP MIB e OSPF MIB e OSPF TRAP MIB e BGP4 MIB e CISCO HSRP MIB e PIM MIB IEEE 802 1s Multiple VLAN Instances of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802 1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol Page 10 of 14 RFC BGP e RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute e RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions with the TCP MD5 Signature Option RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping e RFC 2519 A Framework for Inter Domain Route Aggregation e RFC 2545 Use of BGPv4 Multiprotocol Extensions e RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGPv4 e RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP e RFC 3392 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP v4 RFC 4271 BGPv4 e RFC 4273 BGPv4 MIB Definitions of Managed Objects for BGPv4 e RFC 4456 BGP Route Reflection e RFC 4486 Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message e RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP e RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four Octet AS Number Space OSPF e RFC 2328 OSPF Version 2 8431RFC 3101 OSPF Not So Stubby Area NSSA Option RFC 3137 OSPF Stub Router Advertisement RFC 3509 Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area
11. M is designed for the Cisco Nexus hardware platforms which are enabled for Cisco NX OS Cisco DCNM is a Cisco management solution that increases overall data center infrastructure uptime and reliability improving business continuity Focused on the management requirements of the data center network Cisco DCNM provides a robust framework and comprehensive feature set that can meet the routing switching and storage administration needs of present and future data centers Cisco DCNM automates the provisioning process proactively monitors the LAN by detecting performance degradation secures the network and simplifies the diagnosis of dysfunctional network elements Transceiver and Cabling Options The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform supports a wide variety of 100 Megabit Ethernet and 1 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options For in rack or adjacent rack cabling the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform supports SFP direct attach copper cabling an innovative solution that integrates transceivers with Twinax cables into an energy efficient and low cost solution For longer cable runs multimode and single mode optical SFP transceivers are supported 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 5 of 14 Table 3 lists the supported 40 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver options 40 Gigabit Ethernet is achieved on the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform by combining four sequential SFP interfaces into a logical 40
12. Unidirectional Link Detection UDLD Standard and Aggressive Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol MSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol RSTP and Spanning Tree Protocol guard Security Authentication authorization and accounting AAA access control lists ACLs storm control and configurable Control Plane Policing CoPP e Management features Cisco Data Center Network Manager DCNM support Secure Shell Version 2 SSHv2 access Cisco Discovery Protocol SNMP syslog and IEEE 1588 PTP e Monitoring features Advanced buffer monitoring SPAN and ERSPAN Base license e Layer 3 IP routing Inter VLAN routing IVR static routes Routing Information Protocol Version 2 RIPv2 ACLs Open Shortest Path First Version 2 OSPF v2 limited to 256 routes Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EIGRP stub Hot Standby Router Protocol HSRP and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP Multicast Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode PIM SM Source Specific Multicast SSM and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP LAN Enterprise license Advanced Layer 3 IP routing OSPFv2 EIGRP Border Gateway Protocol BGP and Virtual Routing and N3K LAN1KQ9 requires Forwarding Lite VRF Lite Base license Algo Boost license e Algo Boost features NAT warp mode and warp SPAN N3K ALGK9 N3548 24P UPG e 24 Port Upgrade License Cisco Data Center Network Manager The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform is supported in Cisco DCNM Cisco DCN
13. ation 64 000 8000 24 000 4000 64 000 8000 8000 8000 4096 4096 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol RSTP 512 Multiple Spanning Tree MST Protocol 64 24 24 6 MB shared among 16 ports 18 MB total 2 GB 2 redundant e AC forward and reversed airflow e DC forward and reversed airflow e 152 watts W 48p with Twinax at 100 load 2 power supply units PSUs at 25C 180W 48p with SR optics at 100 load 2 PSUs at 25C 265W 100 to 240 VAC 50 to 60 Hz 89 to 91 at 220V Page 7 of 14 Typical heat dissipation 519 BTUs per hr 48p with Twinax at 100 load 2 PSUs at 25C 614 BTUs per hr 48p with SR optics at 100 load 2 PSUs at 25C Maximum heat dissipation 904 BTUs per hr Cooling Forward and reversed airflow schemes Forward airflow Port side exhaust air enters through fan tray and power supplies and exits through ports e Reversed airflow Port side intake air enters through ports and exits through fan tray and power supplies Four individual hot swappable fans 3 1 redundant Environment Dimensions height x width x depth 1 72 x 17 3 x 18 38 in 4 36 x 43 9 x 46 7 cm Weight 17 4 Ib 7 9 kg Operating temperature 32 to 104 F 0 to 40 C Storage temperature 40 to 158 F 40 to 70 C Relative humidity operating e 10 to 85 noncondensing e Up to 5 days at maximum 85 humidity e Recommend ASHRAE data center environment Relative humidity nonoperating 5 to 95 noncondensing Altitude 0 to 10 00
14. capacity e Forwarding rate of 720 million packets per second mpps e Line rate traffic throughput both Layer 2 and 3 on all ports e Configurable maximum transmission units MTUs of up to 9216 bytes jumbo frames 4 PPS output will be enabled in a future software revision Table 7 Hardware Specifications Common to Both Switches 24 fixed SFP ports 1 or 10 Gbps expandable to 48 ports Dual redundant hot swappable power supplies e Four individual redundant hot swappable fans One 1 PPS timing port with the RF1 0 2 3 QuickConnect connector type Two 10 100 1000 Mbps management ports e One RS 232 serial console port One USB port e Locator LED e Locator LED button 480 Gbps switching capacity Forwarding rate of 360 mpps e Line rate traffic throughput both Layer 2 and 3 on all ports e Configurable MTUs of up to 9216 bytes jumbo frames Hardware tables and scalability Power Number of MAC addresses Number of IPv4 unicast routes Number of IPv4 hosts Number of IPv4 multicast routes Number of VLANS Number of ACL entries Number of spanning tree instances Number of EtherChannels Number of ports per EtherChannel Buffer size Boot flash memory Number of power supplies Power supply types Typical operating power Maximum power Input voltage Frequency Power supply efficiency 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Inform
15. cs and real time alerts on your Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches Spanning the entire network lifecycle Cisco Services helps increase investment protection optimize network operations support migration operations and strengthen your IT expertise 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 13 of 14 For More Information For more information please visit http www cisco com go nexus3000 IE CISCO Europe Headquarters Americas Headquarters Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems Inc Cisco Systems USA Pte Ltd Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam San Jose CA Singapore The Netherlands Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide Addresses phone numbers and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www cisco com go offices amp Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and or its affiliates in the U S and other countries To view a list of Cisco trademarks go to this URL www cisco com go trademarks Third party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company 1110R C78 707001 08 03 14 Printed in USA Page 14 of 14 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information
16. ecision time synchronization to applications within existing network infrastructure with no need to invest in and deploy a separate timing network e Network administrators deploying IEEE 1588 PTP often find it challenging to measure the accuracy to which each device is synchronized To assist in this effort the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform includes a 1 PPS output port that can be used to measure timing drift from the grandmaster clock Cisco Nexus 3548 Switch The Cisco Nexus 3548 Switch Figure 1 the first member of the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform is a compact one rack unit 1RU form factor 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch providing line rate Layer 2 and 3 switching with ultra low latency The switch runs the industry leading Cisco NX OS Software operating system providing customers with comprehensive features and functions that are widely deployed globally The Cisco Nexus 3548 contains no physical layer PHY chips allowing low latency and low power consumption This switch supports both forward and reversed airflow schemes and both AC and DC power inputs Figure 1 Cisco Nexus 3548 Switch The Cisco Nexus 3548 has the following hardware configuration e 48 fixed Enhanced Small Form Factor Pluggable SFP ports 1 or 10 Gbps e Dual redundant hot swappable power supplies e Four individual redundant hot swappable fans e One 1 PPS timing port with the RF 1 0 2 3 QuickConnect connector type e Two 10 100 1000 management ports e One RS 232
17. igabit Ethernet modes Table 5 lists the Gigabit Ethernet SFP transceivers that are supported 100 Megabit Ethernet connectivity can be achieved by using copper based SFP transceivers GLC T Table 5 Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Support Matrix GLC T 1000BASE T SFP GLC SX MM GE SFP LC connector SX transceiver MMF GLC SX MMD 1000BASE SX SFP transceiver module MMF 850 nm DOM GLC LH SM GE SFP LC connector LX and LH transceiver GLC LH SMD 1000BASE LX LH SFP transceiver module MMF and SMF 1310 nm DOM For more information about the transceiver types see http www cisco com en US products hw modules ps5455 prod_module series home html 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 6 of 14 Product Specifications Tables 6 and 7 list the specifications for the Cisco Nexus 3548 and 3524 Switches Table 8 lists software features and Table 9 lists management standards and support Table 6 Specifications Specification Cisco Nexus 3548 Cisco Nexus 3524 Physical Performance 48 fixed SFP ports 1 or 10 Gbps Dual redundant hot swappable power supplies e Four individual redundant hot swappable fans One 1 PPS timing port with the RF1 0 2 3 QuickConnect connector type e Two 10 100 1000 Mbps management ports e One RS 232 serial console port One USB port e Locator LED Locator LED button e 960 Gbps switching
18. is switch supports both forward and reversed airflow schemes and both AC and DC power inputs Figure 4 Cisco Nexus 3524 Switch The Cisco Nexus 3524 has the following hardware configuration e 24 fixed SFP ports 1 or 10 Gbps 48 ports total are available with a license e Dual redundant hot swappable power supplies e Four individual redundant hot swappable fans e One 1 PPS timing port with the RF1 0 2 3 QuickConnect connector type e Two 10 100 1000 management ports e One RS 232 serial console port e One USB port e Locator LED e Locator LED button 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 3 of 14 Support for both forward port side exhaust and reversed port side intake airflow schemes is available Forward airflow is useful when the port side of the switch sits on a cold aisle and the power supply side sits on a hot aisle Reverse airflow is useful when the power supply side of the switch sits on a cold aisle and the port side sits ona hot aisle Colored handles on each fan or power supply clearly indicate the airflow direction as seen in Figures 5 and 6 Figure 5 Cisco Nexus 3524 with Blue Handles Indicating Forward Airflow Figure 6 Cisco Nexus 3524 with Red Handles Indicating Reversed Airflow Cisco NX OS Software Overview Cisco NX OS is a data center class operating system built with modularity resiliency and serviceability
19. nd 3 scaling values listed later in this document in Table 6 Warp mode For those customers with smaller environments who demand the lowest latencies possible warp mode consolidates forwarding operations within the switch ASIC lowering latency by up to an additional 20 percent compared to normal operation In this mode latencies as low as 190 ns can be paired with the smaller of the Layer 2 and 3 scaling values listed later in this document in Table 6 o Warp SPAN In some environments a stream of traffic entering one port simply needs to be copied to a list of outgoing ports as quickly as possible without processing or modification The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform s warp SPAN capability allows all traffic entering a single port on the switch to be replicated to any number of destination ports at latencies as low as 50 ns e Hitless Network Address Translation NAT In many financial trading environments trade orders must be sourced from the IP space of the provider requiring NAT at the border between networks The Cisco Nexus 3500 platform can perform NAT for IPv4 unicast routed packets without incurring any additional latency e Active buffer monitoring Even on the lowest latency switches data packets can incur a millisecond or more of latency during periods of congestion Today s switches do not adequately inform administrators about the presence of this congestion leaving them unaware and hindered in their ability to address the co
20. nditions causing suboptimal performance Previous buffer utilization monitoring techniques were based entirely on software polling algorithms with polling intervals higher than 100 ms which can miss important congestion events In contrast Algo Boost accelerates the collection of buffer utilization data in hardware allowing sampling intervals of 10 ns or less 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 1 of 14 e Advanced traffic mirroring The Algo Boost technology on the Cisco Nexus 3500 platform facilitates not only network troubleshooting by supporting Switched Port Analyzer SPAN and Encapsulated Remote SPAN ERSPAN technologies but also in service network monitoring with enhancements including the capability to Apply user configurable filters to reduce the amount of captured traffic to a specified flow or protocol o Capture a sample of eligible packets such as one out of every thousand Truncate packets after a user defined threshold Insert a nanosecond level timestamp in the ERSPAN header of captured packets requires ERSPAN and Precision Time Protocol PTP e IEEE 1588 PTP with pulse per second PPS output The capability to build and maintain a synchronized accurate timing solution is the basis for successful provisioning and management of HFT networks and applications Using IEEE 1588 PTP Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches can deliver highly accurate pr
21. parate protected memory space Thus processes are started and system resources allocated only when a feature is enabled The modular processes are governed by a real time preemptive scheduler that helps ensure timely processing of critical functions Troubleshooting and diagnostics Cisco NX OS is built with unique serviceability functions to allow network operators to take early action based on network trends and events enhancing network planning and improving network operations center NOC and vendor response times Cisco Smart Call Home and Cisco Online Health Management System OHMS are some of the features that enhance the serviceability of Cisco NX OS 2014 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Simplification of data center operating environment End to end Cisco Nexus and Cisco NX OS fabric No retraining necessary for data center engineering and operations teams Transparent operation with existing network infrastructure Open standards No compatibility concerns Robust software Fault tolerance Increased scalability Increased network availability Quick problem isolation and resolution Continuous system monitoring and proactive notifications Improved productivity of operations teams Page 4 of 14 C e Ease of management Cisco NX OS provides a programmatic XML interface Rapid development and creation of tools for enhanced based on the NETCONF ind
22. st RP Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP Versions 2 and 3 Security Ingress ACLs standard and extended on Ethernet Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs include IPv4 Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP TCP and User Datagram Protocol UDP e VLAN based ACLs VACLs e Port based ACLs PACLs Named ACLs ACLs on virtual terminals VTYs Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP relay e Control Plane Policing CoPP Management Power On Auto Provisioning POAP e Python scripting Switch management using 10 100 1000 Mbps management or console ports e CLI based console to provide detailed out of band management in band switch management Locator and beacon LEDs Configuration rollback e SSHv2 e Telnet e AAA e AAA with RBAC RADIUS TACACS e Syslog Embedded packet analyzer e SNMP v1 v2 and v3 Enhanced SNMP MIB support e XML NETCONF support Remote monitoring RMON e Advanced Encryption Standard AES for management traffic e Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol MS CHAP Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server e Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2 RBAG SPAN on physical PortChannel and VLAN ERSPAN Versions 2 and 3 Ingress and egress packet counters per interface Network Time Protocol NTP e Cisco OHMS Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests e
23. ustry standard The Cisco NX OS XML interface management provides a consistent API for devices Cisco NX OS also provides support for e Comprehensive SNMP MIB s for efficient rem Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP Versions 1 2 and 3 MIBs mioritoriig ii upport or eticiont remote Role based access control RBAC With RBAC Cisco NX OS enables e Effective access control mechanism based on user roles administrators to limit access to switch operations by assigning roles to e Improved network device security users Administrators can customize access and restrict it to only the users who require it Reduction in network problems arising from human error Cisco NX OS Software Packages for the Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform The software packages for the Cisco Nexus 3500 offer flexibility and a comprehensive feature set and are consistent with Cisco Nexus access switches The default system software has a comprehensive Layer 2 feature set with extensive security and management features To enable certain Layer 3 IP unicast and multicast routing functions NAT warp mode and warp SPAN additional licenses must be installed as described in Table 2 See Table 8 later in this document for a complete software feature list Table 2 Software Licensing for Cisco Nexus 3500 Software Package Features Supported System default e Comprehensive Layer 2 feature set VLAN IEEE 802 1Q trunking Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP no license required
24. working OS including Cisco IOS Software that conforms to the networking standards mentioned in this data sheet Regulatory Standards Compliance Table 10 summarizes regulatory standards compliance for the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Table 10 Regulatory Standards Compliance Safety and EMC Regulatory compliance Products should comply with CE Markings per directives 2004 108 EC and 2006 95 EC UL 60950 1 Second Edition CAN CSA C22 2 No 60950 1 Second Edition EN 60950 1 Second Edition IEC 60950 1 Second Edition AS NZS 60950 1 GB4943 EMC Emissions 47CFR Part 15 CFR 47 Class A AS NZS CISPR22 Class A CISPR22 Class A EN55022 Class A ICES003 Class A VCCI Class A EN61000 3 2 EN61000 3 3 KN22 Class A CNS13438 Class A EMC Immunity e EN55024 CISPR24 EN300386 KN24 Safety RoHS RoHS 5 compliant except for lead press fit connectors Ordering Information Table 11 provides ordering information for the Cisco Nexus 3548 and 3524 We can also mention 3500 Table 11 Ordering Information Chassis N3K C3548P 10G Nexus 3548 Switch 48 SFP N3K C3524P 10G Nexus 3524 Switch 24 SFP NXA FAN 30CFM F N2K 3K Individual Fan Forward airflow port side exhaust NXA FAN 30CFM B N2K 3K Individual Fan Reversed airflow port side intake N2200 PAC 400W N2K 3K 400W AC Power Supply Forward airflow port side exhaust N2200 PAC 400W B N2K 3K 400W AC Power Supply Reversed airflow port side intake N2200 PDC 400W N2K 3K 400W
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