N5K-C56128P Specifications | |
Latency | 1 microsecond |
Expansion slots | 2 |
Number of ports | 1152 with FEX |
10 GE | Up to 96 wire-rate ports |
40 GE | Up to 8 QSFP ports |
Unified ports | Up to 48 ports (Ethernet; FCoE; 2/4/8-gigabit FC) |
10 and 40 Gbps FCoE | Yes |
Hardware VXLAN | Yes |
Form factor | 2-rack unit |
Interfaces | ● 48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports with 4 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ fixed ports and 2 expansion slots ● Expansion module: 24 SFP+ unified ports plus 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports ● Conversion of 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces through QSFP+ breakout cable ● Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms |
Performance | ● Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 2.56 Tbps; 1904 mpps (64-byte packets) ● Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries ● Low latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces ● 25-MB buffer per 12 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces ● Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in Layer 2 and 3 mode |
High-Availability Features | ● Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2 ● Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules ● N+1 and N+N power redundancy ● N+1 fan module redundancy |
Data Center Bridging | ● CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support: IEEE 802.1Qbb) ● PFC link distance support: 20 km ● CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol ● CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection |
SNMP MIBs | |
Ethernet MIBs | ● CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB ● CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB ● CISCO-VTP-MIB |
Layer 3 MIBs | ● UDP-MIB ● TCP-MIB ● OSPF-MIB ● BGP4-MIB ● CISCO-HSRP-MIB |
Miscellaneous MIBs | ● START-MIB ● CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB ● CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB ● CISCO-CDP-MIB ● CISCO-RF-MIB ● CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB ● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB ● CISCO-FCOE-MIB ● CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB ● CISCO-ZS-MIB |
Monitoring MIBs | ● DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC ● NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB ● DIFFSERV-MIB ● CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB ● CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB ● CISCO-PROCESS-MIB ● RMON-MIB ● CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB ● CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB ● LLDP-MIB |
Standards | |
Industry Standards | ● IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol ● IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization ● IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging ● IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection ● IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause ● IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol ● IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol ● IEEE 802.3: Ethernet ● IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers ● IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet ● IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (Applies to 40G SR4, SR4-S, LR4, LR4-S, and CSR4 optics only) ● SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support ● RMON |