Description

Cisco Nexus 5000 is a series of access-layer-based data center switches designed for multicore processors. It enables users to visualize the switch operation with hot-swappable power and fan modules, monitor and troubleshoot traffic with Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Encapsulated SPAN (ERSPAN), optimize the allocation of bandwidth, accomplish the dynamic tuning shared and dedicated buffers, accomplish multicast replication through the fabric and exit point, streamline flow-based hashing for multicast traffic over a port channel, as well as share dynamic tuning of the sizes and buffers in event of congestion. Series includes Cisco Nexus 2200, Cisco Nexus 2300, Cisco Nexus 5020, Cisco Nexus 5500, Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform 40-Gbps Switches, and Cisco Nexus 5600 Platform 10-Gbps Switches.