Datasheet

Data Sheet
© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 13 of 24
Product Specifications
Performance
Cisco Nexus 5020: Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1.04 Tbps or 773.8 million packets per second (mpps)
Cisco Nexus 5010: Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 520 Gbps or 386.9 mpps
MAC address table entries: 16,000
Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size,
traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports
Interfaces
Cisco Nexus 5020: 40 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports (ports 1 to 16 are Gigabit Ethernet and 10
Gigabit Ethernet); additional interfaces through two expansion modules
Cisco Nexus 5010: 20 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE Ports (ports 1 to 8 are Gigabit Ethernet and 10
Gigabit Ethernet); additional interfaces through one expansion module
Expansion modules:
6-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
4-port Fibre Channel plus 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
8-port native 4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel expansion module
6-port native 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel expansion module
Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series (up to 12 fabric extenders per Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Switch)
Layer 2 Features
Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
Support for up to 512 VLANs and 32 virtual SANs (VSANs) per switch
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
Spanning Tree PortFast and PortFast Guard
Spanning Tree UplinkFast and BackboneFast
Spanning Tree Root Guard
Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
NIC teaming
Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
Cisco vPC technology
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)