Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform Switches: Product Overview
Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform Switches: Product Overview
Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform Switches: Product Overview
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Data Sheet
Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform Switches
Product Overview
In todays data centers, virtualization deployments have become commonplace, and this trend is increasing rapidly
with the availability of 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers at attractive prices. The combination of increased adoption of
these servers and applications with higher bandwidth requirements is increasing the need for dense 10 and 40
Gigabit Ethernet switching. Moreover, data center architecture is changing as application environments create new
demands for IT infrastructure. Application workloads are deployed across a mix of virtualized and nonvirtualized
server and storage infrastructure, requiring a network infrastructure that provides consistent connectivity, security,
and visibility across a range of bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud computing environments.
The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform is the third generation of industrys leading Data Center Server-Access Nexus
5000 series of switches. Cisco Nexus 5600 is the successor of industrys most widely adopted Cisco Nexus 5500
series switches that maintain all the existing Nexus 5500 features including LAN/SAN convergence (Unified Ports,
FCoE), Fabric Extenders (FEX) and Fabric Path, but in addition brings integrated line-rate Layer 2/3 with true
40GE support, Ciscos Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) innovation, NVGRE, VxLAN bridging & routing capability,
network programmability & visibility, deep buffers and significantly higher scale & performance for highly
virtualized, automated, and cloud environments. The Cisco Nexus
(Cisco UCS