• Cisco Nexus 5500 and5600 platforms
• Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Seriesand 7700 platform

The platform offers excellent support for migration from traditional 1 Gigabit Ethernet to 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and virtual machine - aware unified fabric technologies.

The Cisco Nexus 2300 platform maintains all the existing Cisco Nexus 2000 Series features including a single point of management high availability with virtual PortChannels (vPC) vPC+ Enhanced vPC and LAN and SAN convergence using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). With the addition of true 40 Gigabit Ethernet support deep buffers to handle bursts of traffic common in today's data center and unified port capability (currently Fibre Channel functions are supported only in hardware) the Cisco Nexus 2300 platform is suitable for highly virtualized automated and cloud environments.

The Cisco Nexus 2300 fabric extenders provide a 1-rack-unit (1RU) energy-efficient platform with a choice of front-to-back (port-side exhaust) and back-to-front (port-side intake) airflow options that offer 100 Megabit Ethernet; 1 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet; Fibre Channel (currently supported only in hardware); and FCoE for a broad range of traditional data center and large-scale virtualized cloud deployments.

• Host interfaces: 48
• Host interface type: 48 x 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Fabric interfaces: 6 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP (24 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet)
• Fabric speed: Up to 240 Gbps in each direction (480-Gbps full duplex)
• Oversubscription: Up to 2:1
• Performance: Hardware forwarding at 1440 Gbps or 2160 million packets per second (mpps)
• FCoE: FCoE supported (Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 platforms and 6000 Series)
• Typical input operating power: 125 watts (W;maximum 200W)
• Heat dissipation: 426 BTU/hour (typical);682 BTU/hour (maximum)
• Redundant hot-swappable power supplies
• Hot-swappable fan tray with redundant fans