Cisco Systems N7K-C7004-S2E

Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches combine high levels of scalability with operational flexibility. Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches provide the foundation for Cisco unified fabric. It is a modular data center-class product line designed for highly scalable 1/10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet network with a fabric architecture that scales beyond 17 terabits per second. Designed to meet the requirements of the most mission-critical data centers, the switches deliver continuous system operation and virtualized, pervasive services.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 series Supervisor Module is designed to deliver scalable control plane and management functions for the Cisco Nexus 7000 series chassis. It is based on a dual core processor that scales the control plane by harnessing the flexibility and power of the dual cores. The supervisors control the Layer 2 and 3 services, redundancy capabilities, configuration management, status monitoring, power and environmental management, and more. It provides centralized arbitration to the system fabric for all line cards. The fully distributed forwarding architecture allows the supervisor to support transparent upgrades to higher forwarding capacity-capable I/O and fabric modules. The supervisor incorporates an innovative dedicated connectivity management processor (CMP) to support remote management and troubleshooting of the complete system. Two supervisors are required for a fully redundant system, with one supervisor module running as the active device and the other in hot standby mode, providing exceptional high-availability features in data center-class products.

• THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 SERIES SWITCHES FEATURES:
• Front-to-back airflow with 10 front-accessed vertical module slots and an integrated cable management system, facilitates installation, operation, and cooling
• 18 front-accessed module slots with side-to-side airflow in a compact horizontal form factor with purpose-built integrated cable management eases operations and reduces complexity
• The system uses dual dedicated supervisor modules
• Midplane design supports flexible technology upgrades as your needs change and provides ongoing investment protection
• THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 SERIES SUPERVISOR MODULE FEATURES:
• Continuous system operation
• Active and standby supervisor
• Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths
• Virtualization of the management plane
• Integrated diagnostics and protocol decoding with an embedded control plane packet analyzer
• Fully decoupled control plane and data plane with no hardware forwarding on the module
• Distributed forwarding architecture, allowing independent upgrades of the supervisor and fabric
• Transparent upgrade capacity and capability; designed to support 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• Superior operational efficiency
• System locator and beacon LEDs for simplified operations
• Dedicated out-of-band management processor for 'lights out' management