《Nexus 6004 Architecture White Paper》.pdf

Nexus 6004 Architecture White Paper SINA MIRTORABI (sina@) Technical Marketing Engineer SAVTG Copyright © 2005 Cisco Systems, Inc. 1 of 28 Company Confidential A printed copy of this document is considered uncontrolled.A printed copy of this document is considered uncontrolled. Refer to the onlineRefer to the online version for the controlled revision.version for the controlled revision. Nexus 6004 Architecture White Paper What You Will Learn Cisco introduced Nexus® 5000 Series Switches as purpose-built 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center–class switches providing high-bandwidth, low-latency access-layer switches for rack deployment and as the basis for a unified network fabric that can help simplify data center infrastructure while reducing capital and operational costs. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series are well suited for enterprise-class data center server access-layer deployments and smaller-scale, midmarket data center aggregation deployments across a diverse set of physical, virtual, storage access, and unified data center environments Today Cisco announces the Nexus 6004, the first platform of Cisco Nexus 6000 Series. The Cisco Nexus 6004 brings an unprecedented density to the market with 96 ports at 40Gbps or 384 ports at 10Gbps in only 4 Rack Units (RU). The platform is built with state of the art Cisco’s ASIC technology providing line rate for any packet size with port-to-port latency of 1 us. The Cisco Nexus 6004 has the hardware capability to support Layer 2, Layer 3, Cisco® FabricPath, IETF Transparent Interc