The Cisco Nexus 5696Q offers a Unified Port Linecard Expansion Module (UP LEM) for Ethernet/FCoE and native Fibre Channel support. The UP LEM (N5696-M20UP) provides up to twenty 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using the SFP+ interface or up to twenty ports of native Fibre Channel connectivity using 8 and 4G SFP+ and SFP interfaces. The use of 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet or 8/4-Gbps Fibre Channel on a port is mutually exclusive but can be selected for any of the twenty physical ports per module.