Compact Cost-Effective Flexible Access Solution

The Cisco Nexus 2348TQ Fabric Extender (FEX) provides 48 10 GBASE-T host port interfaces and up to six 40 GE fabric interfaces in a compact 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. This platform with innovative features and enhanced buffers is ideally suited for migrating to 10GBASE-T in the network access.

Features and CapabilitiesArchitectural Flexibility

The Cisco Nexus 2348TQ FEX is part of Nexus 2300 Series Fabric Extenders. Combining the fabric extender and Cisco Nexus switches creates a flexible strategy for server access. Read on to learn its capabilities.

Reduced TCO

• Allows easy migration from 100M or 1 Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Uses existing category 6 or 7a cabling
• Effectively reuses structured cabling with bidirectional optics
• Reduces power consumption

Simplified Operations

• Offers a single point of management software upgrade and policy enforcement
• Features for fast easy management include autoconfiguration

Increased Business Agility

• Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for LAN and SAN convergence
• Offers large 32-MB buffers that sustain workload spikes
• Provides architectural flexibility with Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation and Application Centric Infrastrucure
• Delivers improved resilience with virtual PortChannel (vPC) and In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSUs)

Physical:

• 1+1 redundant and hot-swappable power supplies
• N+1 redundant and hot-swappable fans
• Forty-eight 100M/1GBASE-T/10GBASE-T host port interfaces
• 6 QSFP+ ports
• 1 HDMI console port

Performance:

• Up to 240 Gbps of switching capacity in each direction (480 Gbps full duplex)
• Hardware forwarding at 1440 Gbps or 2160 million packets per second (mpps)
• Oversubscription ratio of 2:1
• 32-MB buffer