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    The document provides information about Cisco Nexus 7000 and 7700 series switches. It discusses the key components of Nexus 7000 switches including the chassis, I/O modules, supervisor engines, and fabric modules. It also compares the Nexus 7000 and 7700 series switches in terms of supported port density, chassis designs, and supervisor engine models. Specifically, it notes that the Nexus 7718 switch can provide up to 90 terabits per second of total switching capacity.

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    The document provides information about Cisco Nexus 7000 and 7700 series switches. It discusses the key components of Nexus 7000 switches including the chassis, I/O modules, supervisor engines, and fabric modules. It also compares the Nexus 7000 and 7700 series switches in terms of supported port density, chassis designs, and supervisor engine models. Specifically, it notes that the Nexus 7718 switch can provide up to 90 terabits per second of total switching capacity.

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    Cisco Nexus Training

    Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, 2000


    Introduction to Nexus Switches

    • These switches are designed for data-centers which support and provide High Availability,
    High Performance, Infrastructure Scalability, Operational Continuity.
    • These are designed for wide range of datacentre deployments, mainly focused on high
    density and performance, mission-critical enterprise and service provider deployments.
    • These switches offer most comprehensive data center network feature sets in a single
    platform.
    • There are 8 categories of these hardware – Nexus 9000, 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000, 3000,
    2000, 1000
    1. Nexus 7000 switches offer a full feature
    set in a highly resilient modular
    platform.
    2. These are two different hardware
    platforms, so remember that the
    Cisco Nexus components of 7000 series can’t be
    used in 7700 series and vice-versa.
    7000/7700 3. Both Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco 7700
    series datacenter switch
    models support 1, 10,40 and 100 Gbps
    port density.
    4. There are mainly four components in
    nexus 7000 switches – Chassis, I/O
    modules, Supervisor Engines and Fabric
    Modules.
    5. Chassis is basically a house for all
    modules, Sup engines, Fabric modules ,
    power supplies and Fan modules and
    provides Cooling and power infrastructure
    to everything inside the chassis.

    Cisco Nexus 6. I/O modules are line cards ( M & F Series)


    which provide data plane forwarding to the
    7000/7700 switches.
    7. Supervisor Engine is brain of the switch
    and provide management and control plane
    functions.
    8. Fabric Modules provide high bandwidth
    inter-connection between I/O modules.
    Nexus 7000 Series Switches
    Nexus 7700 Series Switches
    Comparison Nexus 7000 & 7700
    Comparison Nexus 7000 & 7700
    Calculating Total Switching capacity for 7718

    It has 2.8 Tbps bandwidth per slow and 16 I/O modules

    So total Switching capacity = 2.8 * 16 * 2 ( full duplex operation) =


    89.6Tbps ~= 90Tbps
    Comparison Nexus 7000 Chassis
    Comparison Nexus 7700 Chassis
    Fabric Module
    • Note, Chassis 7004, 7702 do not require Fabric Module as it is inbuilt.
    Supervisor Engine

    • The supervisor engine is brain of the switch that controls the Layer 2 and 3 services, redundancy
    capabilities, configuration management, status monitoring, power and environmental management,
    and more.
    • Management functions are Telnet, SSH, SNMP etc.
    • Control plane functions like traffic of Routing Protocols, Spanning-Tree, LACP port channel etc.
    • The Cisco Nexus 7000 Supervisor Module incorporates highly advanced analysis and debugging
    capabilities
    • The supervisor module uniquely provides a built-in packet capture and protocol decoding tool that
    allows analysis of control plane traffic to improve network planning, provide faster operation
    response times to events, and reduce operating costs.
    Supervisor Engine Comparison Chart
    Supervisor Engine for Nexus 7700
    Supervisor Engine for Nexus 7000

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