cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5596UP vs cisco Nexus 5600 Nexus 5672UP
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 5596UP is a 2U unified port datacenter switch providing 48 fixed Universal Ports and three modular expansion slots. The Cisco Nexus 5672UP is a 1U top-of-rack converged switch providing 48 ports of 10GbE SFP+ (including 16 Universal Ports supporting 8G/16G Fibre Channel) and 6 ports of 40G QSFP+.
| cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5596UP | cisco Nexus 5600 Nexus 5672UP | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2011 | Apr 2014 |
| Form factor | 2U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Fixed ports | 48 Unified Ports (10GbE, FCoE, or 8G/4G/2G FC) | — |
| Expansion slots | 3 expansion slots supporting 16-port unified modules or Layer 3 modules | — |
| Maximum ports | Up to 96 unified ports in 2U | — |
| Switching capacity | 1.92 Tbps / 1,428 Mpps forwarding rate | 1.44 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth |
| Cooling power | Dual hot-swappable power supplies and 4 hot-swappable fan modules | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 10GbE SFP+ (16 universal ports) + 6x 40GbE QSFP+ ports |
| Forwarding rate | — | Up to 1,071 Mpps |
| Unified ports | — | 16 ports support native 8G/16G Fibre Channel or 10GbE Ethernet |
| Vxlan routing | — | Hardware-accelerated VXLAN bridging and routing in a 1U form factor |
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