- Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Installation Guide

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Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 6004 Switch
Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 6004 series switch supports a wide variety of 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
options using Cisco 40GBASE QSFP and breakout cable options.
This section includes the following topics:
• Transceiver Support Matrix, page 1-7
Transceiver Support Matrix
The Cisco Nexus 6004 switch also supports the following QSFP transceivers:
Note For in-rack or adjacent-rack cabling, the Cisco Nexus 6004 platform supports QSFP+ direct-attach 40
Gigabit Ethernet copper cables, an innovative solution that integrates transceivers with Twinax cables
into an energy-efficient, low-cost, and low-latency solution. QSFP+ direct-attach 40 Gigabit Ethernet
Twinax copper cables use only 1.5 watts (W) of power per transceiver and introduce less than 0.1
microsecond of latency per link. For longer cable runs, the Cisco Nexus 6004 platform supports
multimode, short-reach optical QSFP transceivers. These optical transceivers use approximately 1.5W
per transceiver and have a latency of less than 0.1 microsecond.
Cisco SFP Description
QSFP-40G-SR4 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP module, (multimode fiber [MMF] at 100m)
QSFP-40G-CSR4 40GBASE Extended CSR4 QSFP module, (MMF at 300m)
QSFP-4x10G-AC7M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ to 4 10GBASE-CU SFP+ direct-attach
breakout cable, 7m, active
QSFP-4x10G-AC10M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ to 4 10GBASE-CU SFP+ direct-attach
breakout cable, 10m, active
QSFP-H40G-CU1M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ direct-attach copper cable, 1m, passive
QSFP-H40G-CU3M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ direct-attach copper cable, 3m, passive
QSFP-H40G-CU5M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ direct-attach copper cable, 5m, passive
QSFP-H40G-ACU7M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ direct-attach copper cable, 7m, active
QSFP-H40G-ACU10M Cisco 40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ direct-attach copper cable, 10m, active