N5K-C5596T-FA Overview

N5K-C5596T-FA is the Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch Chassis, including 32 10G BASE-T fixed ports and 16 1/10G SFP+ fixed ports, Back-to-Front Airflow, 2 1100W AC Power Supplies, Fan Trays, 3 Expansion Slots.

Quick Specs

Figure 1 shows the appearance of Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch. N5K-C5596T-FA is its chassis.

Table 1 shows the Quick Specs.

Product Code	N5K-C5596T-FA
Performance	Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps240 mpps
Form Factor	2RU
Fixed Ports	32x10GT/16xSFP+ Fixed Ports
Power Supplies	2 1100W AC Power Supplies
Fan Modules	4
Expansion Slots	3
Airflow	Back-to-Front
Physical (height x width x depth)	3.47 x 17.3 x 29.5 in. (8.8 x 43.9 x 74.9 cm)
Weightwith two 1100W power supplies, 3 unified port expansion modules, and 4 fan modules	47.5 lb (21.55 kg)

Product Details

Figure 2 shows the front panel of Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch. N5K-C5596T-FA is its chassis.

Note:

	Expansion modules
	Identifier LED
	32 fixed ports of 10GBASE-T and 16 fixed ports of SFP+

Figure 2 shows the back panel of Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch. N5K-C5596T-FA is its chassis.

Note:

	Management and console ports (two RJ-45 Ethernet connector ports on the left, a RJ-45 network management connector on the upper right, and a console connector on the lower right)
	USB port
	Two power supplies
	Four fan modules

The Accessories

Table 2 shows the recommended elements for the N5K-C5596T-FA.

Category	Model	Description
Nexus 5500 Expansion Slot	N55-M16UP	Nexus 5500 Unified Ports Module 16p, Spare
N55-D160L3-V2	Nexus 5596 Layer 3 Expansion Module, Version 2
N5K Transceiver and Cable	SFP-H10GB-CU1M	10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 1 Meter
SFP-10G-LR	10GBASE-LR SFP Module
SFP-H10GB-ACU10M	Cisco SFP-H10GB-ACU10M Direct-Attach Active Optical Cables with SFP+ Connectors
License	N55-48P-SSK9	Nexus 5500 Storage License, 48 Ports

Compare to Similar Items

Table 3 shows the comparison of N5K-C5596T-FA, N5K-C5548UP-FA and N5K-C5596UP-FA.

Product Code	N5K-C5596T-FA	N5K-C5548UP-FA	N5K-C5596UP-FA
Form Factor	2RU	1RU	2RU
Fixed Ports	32x10GT/16xSFP+ Fixed Ports	32 fixed unified ports	48 fixed unified ports
Power Supplies	2 1100W AC Power Supplies	2 750W AC Power Supplies	2 1100W AC Power Supplies
Fan Modules	4	2	4
Expansion Slots	3	1	3
Airflow	Back-to-Front	Front-to-Back	Front-to-Back

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N5K-C5596T-FA Specification

N5K-C5596T-FA Specifications
Performance	Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps or 1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240 mpps MAC address table entries: 32,000 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	32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules Expansion modules 16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module 8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE 4-port QSFP expansion module 12-port 10G BASE-T module (Cisco Nexus 5596T only) Layer 3 module (Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system) Layer 3 daughter card (Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system) Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series

Layer 2 Features	Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation Support for up to 4096 VLANs Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances Spanning Tree PortFast Spanning Tree root guard Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel) Cisco vPC technology Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host vPC configuration synchronization Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad Advanced port channel 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) Private VLANs Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous) Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels VLAN Remapping Cisco FabricPath EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath Cisco Adapter FEX Cisco Data Center VM FEX Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform

Layer 3 Features	Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port channel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries Support for up to 8000 multicast routes Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups Support for 1000 VRF entries Support for up to 4096 VLANs 16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP) 1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6) IPv6 VRF Lite Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes) Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules RFC 896

QoS	Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS) 8 hardware queues per port Per-port QoS configuration CoS trust Port-based CoS assignment Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance - IPv4 and IPv6 ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4) MQC CoS marking Per-port virtual output queuing CoS-based egress queuing Egress strict-priority queuing Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) Control Plan Policing (CoPP) - IPv4 and IPv6

Security	Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc. Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc. VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs) Port-based ACLs (PACLs) Named ACLs Optimized ACL distribution ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs) ACL logging on management interface Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82 Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection IP source guard DHCP relay Cisco CTS (Authentication and Policy download from ACS) Ethernet Port Security IPv6 RACL IPv6 PACL IPv6 VACL

High-Availability Features	In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2 Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules 1:1 power redundancy N:1 fan module redundancy

Management	Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management In-band switch management Locator and beacon LEDs on Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Port-based locator and beacon LEDs Configuration synchronization Module preprovisioning Configuration rollback Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) Telnet AAA AAA with RBAC RADIUS TACACS+ Syslog (8 servers) Embedded packet analyzer SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & IPv6) Enhanced SNMP MIB support XML (NETCONF) support Remote monitoring (RMON) Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP) Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2 RBAC Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on physical, port channel, VLAN, and Fibre Channel interfaces Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN) Ingress and egress packet counters per interface Network Time Protocol (NTP) Cisco GOLD Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests Call Home Smart Call Home Cisco Fabric Manager Cisco DCNM CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging	CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support) PFC link distance support: 3000m CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection

Fibre Channel and FCoE Features (Requires Storage Services License)	T11 standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5) T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5) Any 10 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE SAN administration separate from LAN administration FCP Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF) Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, and NP Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, TE, and VF F-port trunking F-port channeling Direct attachment of FCoE and Fibre Channel targets Up to 240 buffer credits per native Fibre Channel port Up to 32 VSANs per switch Fibre Channel (SAN) port channel Native Interop Mode 1 Native Interop Mode 2 Native Interop Mode 3 Native Interop Mode 4 VSAN trunking Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence Distributed device alias services In-order delivery Port tracking Cisco N-Port Virtualization (NPV) technology N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV) Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning Per-VSAN fabric services Cisco Fabric Services Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) Distributed device alias services Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) Fabric binding for Fibre Channel Standard zoning Port security Domain and port Enhanced zoning SAN port channels Cisco Fabric Analyzer Fibre Channel traceroute Fibre Channel ping Fibre Channel debugging Cisco Fabric Manager support Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Boot from SAN over VPC/EVPC

Generic MIBs	SNMPv2-SMI CISCO-SMI SNMPv2-TM SNMPv2-TC IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB IANAifType-MIB IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB HCNUM-TC CISCO-TC SNMPv2-MIB SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB SNMP-TARGET-MIB SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB

Layer 3 MIBs	UDP-MIB TCP-MIB OSPF-MIB BGP4-MIB CISCO-HSRP-MIB
Fibre Channel MIBs	CISCO-ST-TC CISCO-FC-FE-MIB CISCO-FCSP-MIB CISCO-PORT-TRACK-MIB CISCO-PSM-MIB CISCO-FC-SPAN-MIB CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB CISCO-RSCN-MIB CISCO-NS-MIB CISCO-FCS-MIB CISCO-DM-MIB FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB CISCO-FC-ROUTE-MIB CISCO-FSPF-MIB CISCO-ZS-MIB CISCO-ZS-EXT-MIB CISCO-VSAN-MIB CISCO-CFS-MIB CISCO-FCPING-MIB CISCO-FCTRACEROUTE-MIB CISCO-FDMI-MIB CISCO-FC-DEVICE-ALIAS-MIB CISCO-WWNMGR-MIB FCMGMT-MIB CISCO-VEDM-MIB CISCO-FCOE-MIB
Ethernet MIBs	CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB
Configuration MIBs	ENTITY-MIB IF-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB CISCO-FLASH-MIB CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB CISCO-IP-IF-MIB CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB CISCO-NTP-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB
Monitoring MIBs	DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB DIFFSERV-MIB CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB CISCO-PROCESS-MIB RMON-MIB CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB
Security MIBs	CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB CISCO-RADIUS-MIB CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB TCP/IP MIBs INET-ADDRESS-MIB TCP-MIB CISCO-TCP-MIB UDP-MIB IP-MIB CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB CISCO-PORTSECURITY- MIB
Miscellaneous MIBs	START-MIB CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB CISCO-RF-MIB CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB
Industry Standards	IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.3: Ethernet IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support RMON IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock)
Fibre Channel Standards	FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994) FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM1 1996) FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999) FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI/INCITS 297-1997) FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI/INCITS 303-1998) FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI/INCITS 352-2002) FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI/INCITS 404-2006) FC-PI-4, Revision 7.0 FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI/INCITS 373-2003) FC-FS-2, Revision 0.91 FC-LS, Revision 1.2 FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI/INCITS 355-2001) FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI/INCITS 384-2004) FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI/INCITS 348-2001) FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI/INCITS 387-2004) FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 for FCoE FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI/INCITS 269-1996) FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI/INCITS 350-2003) FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI/INCITS 416-2006) FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002, except for FL-ports and Class 2) FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005, except for FL-ports and Class 2) FC-SP, Revision 1.6 FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004, except for FL-ports, SB-ports and Class 2) Class of Service: Class 3, Class F Fibre Channel standard port types: E and F Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD and TE
Physical Specifications
SFP+ Optics	Cisco Nexus 5500 platform supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ copper Twinax cables for short distances and SFP+ optics (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, GLC-ZX-SM and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Transceiver [FET-10G]) for longer distances. SFP+ has several advantages compared to other 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options: Small 10 Gigabit Ethernet form factor Optical interoperability with XENPAK, X2, and XFP interface types Low power consumption Hot-swappable device Cisco Nexus 5500 platform products support 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible SFP+ for native Fibre Channel connectivity options; 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible short-reach and 10-km long-reach SFP transceiver modules operate at 8/4/2 Gbps and are supported in the 8Gbps-capable native Fibre Channel ports on expansion modules and unified ports
Physical (height x width x depth)	3.47 x 17.3 x 29.5 in. (8.8 x 43.9 x 74.9 cm)
Operating temperature	32 to 104F (0 to 40C)
Nonoperating (storage) temperature	-40 to 158F (-40 to 70C)
Humidity	5 to 95% (noncondensing)
Altitude	0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m)
Weight	47.5 lb (21.55 kg)