Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai

The Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai is an 18-slot switch featuring front-to-back airflow and an integrated cable management system across its 18 front-accessible module slots. It is designed with high system capacity to address the scalability demands of expansive cloud environments. As the latest extension to the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series modular switches, the Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai is equipped with an impressive overall switching capacity of over 83 Terabits per second (Tbps). This capacity enables it to deliver the industry’s highest-capacity 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports, supporting up to 768 native 10-Gbps ports, 384 40-Gbps ports, or 192 100-Gbps ports.

Utilizing a passive mid-plane architecture, the Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai chassis incorporates physical connectors and copper traces to facilitate direct data transfer between fabric modules and I/O modules. Inter-module switching is efficiently managed through crossbar fabric ASICs located on individual I/O modules and fabric modules.

The switch employs a scalable, fully distributed fabric architecture that utilizes up to six fabric modules, delivering up to 1.32 Tbps per slot of bandwidth on day one. The midplane design supports flexible technology upgrades, ensuring ongoing investment protection as needs evolve. Future fabric modules are anticipated to provide higher bandwidth capabilities on the platform.

Features

• The Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai Switch, with up to 16 I/O module slots, supports up to 768 x 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 384 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 192 x 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports, to meet the demands of the largest data center deployments.
• The Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch has two dedicated half-slot supervisors to provide full redundancy, stateful supervisor switchover, and hitless In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) capabilities.
• The Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch has six fabric module slots to provide simultaneously active fabric channels to each of the I/O and supervisor modules. Through the parallel forwarding fabric architecture, the Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai Switch can achieve 42 Tbps of forwarding capacity or more.
• Front-to-back airflow helps ensure that the Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch addresses the requirement for hot-aisle and cold-aisle deployments to support efficient cooling.
• The system uses three redundant fan trays for cooling. Each fan tray is composed of independent variable‑speed fans that automatically adjust to the ambient temperature, to reduce power consumption in well-managed facilities while helping to enable optimum operation of the switch. The system also allows hot swapping of fan trays without negatively affecting the system.
• The system supports an optional door and air filter to help ensure clean airflow through the system. The addition of the air filter satisfies NEBS requirements.
• The Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai Switch can have up to sixteen 3- or 3.5-kW power supplies. The smaller power supply configuration provides more flexibility and greater control in power provisioning. The 16 power supply bays are designed for future growth, and most common configurations do not require the use of all power supply units for redundant power configurations.
• I/O modules, supervisor modules, and power supplies are accessible from the front, and fabric modules and fan trays are accessible from the back of the chassis.

Integrated Cable Management System

An integrated cable management system, custom designed for the Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai Switch, supports the cabling requirements of a fully configured system at either or both sides of the switch, providing outstanding flexibility. All system components can easily be removed with the cabling in place, providing ease of maintenance with no disruption.

Easy Operation

 A series of LEDs at the top of the Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai chassis provides a clear summary of the status of the major system components, alerting operators to the need to conduct further investigation. These LEDs report the power supply, fan, fabric, supervisor, and I/O module status.

Energy-Efficient Design

The Cisco Nexus7700-18Slot Dubai uses 3.5-kW and 3-kW power supplies that are 96 and 90 percent efficient or greater, so less power is dissipated as heat, and more power is available for the system to use than with typical power supplies. These high-efficiency power supplies allow smaller power configuration and provide flexible power provisioning.