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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
Ta b l e 1-6 SFP+ Copper Cables
SFP Fiber Channel Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5548 switch supports the multimode 850 nm 4Gbps SFP with 150 m reach. See
Table 1-7.
Ta b l e 1-7 SFP Fiber Channel Transceivers
Cables
On the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platforms, you can use an innovative Twinax copper cable that connects to
standard SFP+ connectors for in-rack use, and on optical cable for longer cable runs.
For in-rack or adjacent-rack cabling, the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform supports SFP+ direct-attach
10-Gigabit Ethernet copper, which integrates transceivers with Twinax cables into an energy efficient,
low-cost, and low-latency solution. SFP+ direct-attach 10-Gigabit Twinax copper cables use only 0.1
watts of power per transceiver and introduce only approximately 0.25 microsecond of latency per link.
For longer cable runs, the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform supports multimode, short-reach optical SFP+
transceivers. These optical transceivers use approximately 1 W per transceiver and have a latency of
less than 0.1 microsecond.
Table Table 1-8 shows details of the cables supported:
Ta b l e 1-8 Supported Cables
Model Description
SFP-H10GB-CU1M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 1 meter
SFP-H10GB-CU3M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 3 meters
SFP-H10GB-CU5M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 5 meters
Model Description
DS-SFP-FC4G-SW 4-Gbps Fibre Channel-SW SFP, LC
DS-SFP-FC4G-LW 4-Gbps Fibre Channel-LW SFP, LC, (10-km
reach)
Cisco DS-SFP-FC8G-SW 8-Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC
Cisco DS-SFP-FC8G-LW 8-Gbps Fibre Channel LW SFP+, LC
Connector (Media) Cable Distance
Power
(each
side)
Transceiver
Latency
(Link)
Standard
SFP+ CU copper Twinax 5 m ~ 0.1 W ~ 0.1
microseconds
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