The Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series Fabric Extenders comprise a category of data center products designed to simplify data center access architecture and operations. The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series uses the Cisco® fabric extender architecture to provide a highly scalable unified server-access platform across a range of 100 Megabit Ethernet, 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, unified fabric, copper and fiber connectivity, and rack and blade server environments. The platform is well suited to support today’s traditional 1 Gigabit Ethernet environments while allowing transparent migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtual machine-aware unified fabric technologies.
The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders behave like remote line cards for a parent Cisco Nexus switch. The fabric extenders are essentially extensions of the parent Cisco Nexus switch fabric, with the fabric extenders and the parent switch together forming a distributed modular system. This architecture enables physical topologies with the flexibility and benefits of both top-of-rack (ToR) and end-of-row (EoR) deployments
Cisco Nexus 2224TP GE: 24 x 100/1000BASE-T host interfaces and 2 x10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces (Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP+])
Specifications:
Fabric speed
● 20 Gbps in each direction (40 Gbps full duplex)
Performance
● Hardware forwarding at 88 Gbps or 65 mpps
Cisco parent switch
● Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
● Cisco Nexus 6000
● Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
● Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
Minimum software
● Cisco NX-OS Software Release 4.2(1)N2(1) (Cisco Nexus 5000 Series)
● Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches running Cisco NX-OS Software Release 6.0 and later
● Cisco NX-OS Software Release 5.2 on the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
● Cisco NX-OS Software Release 6.1 on the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
Dimensions (H x W x D)
● 1.72 x 17.3 x 17.7 in. (4.37 x 43.94 x 44.96 cm)
Weight
● 16.6 lb (7.53 kg)
● * Systems are fully loaded with two power supplies and one fan tray