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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Overview
Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch
Figure 1-4 shows a close-up view of the rear of the Cisco Nexus 5548P chassis.
Figure 1-4 Cisco Nexus 5548 Switch Rear View Close-up
Expansion Modules
Expansion modules allow Cisco Nexus switches to be configured as cost-effective 10-Gigabit Ethernet
switches and as I/O consolidation platforms with native Fibre Channel connectivity.
The Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform is equipped with expansion modules that you can use to increase the
number of 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports or connect to Fibre Channel SANs with 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-Gbps
Fibre Channel switch ports. The chassis supports hot swapping of the expansion modules.
The Cisco Nexus 5548P supports one of the following expansion modulules:
• N55 M16P Gatos Expansion Module, page 1-6
• N55 M8P8FP Gatos Expansion Module, page 1-7
N55 M16P Gatos Expansion Module
The N55 M16P Gatos Expansion Module (GEM) provides 16 1- or 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports
using the small form factor pluggable plus (SFP+) interface.
Figure 1-5 shows the N55 M16P GEM.
Figure 1-5 N55 M16P GEM
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