cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548P vs cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548UP
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 5548P is a 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch offering 32 fixed ports of 10GbE SFP+ and an expansion slot for modular port flexibility. The Cisco Nexus 5548UP is a 1U unified port datacenter switch featuring 32 universal ports and one expansion slot.
| cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548P | cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548UP | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2010 | Apr 2011 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Fixed ports | 32x 1G/10GbE SFP+ ports | — |
| Expansion slot | 1 expansion slot supporting 16-port 10GbE module or unified port module | 1 slot supporting up to 16 additional unified ports or Layer 3 daughter card |
| Switching capacity | Up to 960 Gbps / 714 Mpps | 960 Gbps / 714 Mpps |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | — |
| Storage traffic | Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) transit and termination | — |
| Fex support | Manages up to 24 Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders | — |
| Universal ports | — | 32 fixed Unified Ports (1G/10GbE SFP+ or 8G/4G/2G Fibre Channel) |
| Total ports | — | Up to 48 universal ports in 1U |
| Storage features | — | Native FC switch, FC forwarder (FCF), N-Port Virtualizer (NPV), FCoE |
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