Cisco Nexus 6001 - Switch - L3 - managed - 48 x 10 Gigabit SFP+ + 4 x 40 Gigabit QSFP+ - rack-mountable - AC 100/230 V - refurbished
- Optimized for virtualization and cloud deployments
- Density and resilience
- Energy efficiency
- Low latency
- Intelligent Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Encapsulated SPAN (ERSPAN)
- Flexible buffer management
- Multicast enhancements
Cisco Nexus 6000 series switches, part of the Cisco Unified Fabric offering, expands architectural flexibility and scalability, enabling agile virtualized and cloud deployments. It runs the industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system, providing customers with features and capabilities that are widely deployed worldwide.
The Cisco Nexus 6000 series provides high 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet density in energy-efficient switches with a compact form factor. With a robust integrated Layer 2 and 3 feature set, the Cisco Nexus 6000 series provides a versatile platform that can be deployed in multiple scenarios to build scalable Cisco Unified Fabric in the data center: direct-attach 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet access and high-density fabric extender aggregation deployments, leaf and spine designs, and compact aggregation. Cisco Nexus 6000 series designs can adapt to increasing bandwidth demands with a low power and compact space profile, saving capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx).
The Cisco Nexus 6001 switch is an important component of the Cisco Unified Data Center architecture, complementing the existing Cisco Nexus Family switches. The Cisco Nexus 6001 is an energy-efficient switch that offers high port density in one rack unit (1RU), supports 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), provides integrated Layer 2 and 3 features at wire speed, and offers low latency of approximately 1 microsecond for any packet size.
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Fabric extender architecture: high-density fabric extender aggregator
Cisco Fabric Extender technology (FEX technology) enables customers to build a single, modular fabric that extends from Cisco Nexus switches, to Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) servers, to adapters (Cisco Adapter FEX), and to virtual machines (Cisco Data Center VM-FEX). The Cisco FEX technology is based on the emerging standard IEEE 802.1br.
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Large-scale fabric: leaf and spine architecture
Data center designs are evolving, with customers seeking to build large-scale nonblocking fabrics to accommodate different applications, creating patterns of heavy east-west and north-south traffic. The Cisco Nexus 6001 is well suited as a leaf or spine node in a Layer 2 or 3 fabric design. Leaf and spine layer designs using high-density and low-latency switches lead to flatter network architecture, allowing connections scaling from hundreds to more than 10,000 servers with high bidirectional bandwidth, and helping ensure low-latency fabric with a low hop count. The spine switches create a nonblocking, low-latency fabric, forwarding packets between leafs. The leaf switches provide connectivity to servers. The Cisco Nexus 6001 can be deployed as a Layer 2 or Layer 3 spine or leaf switch, providing a high degree of design flexibility.
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Multihop FCoE
Cisco Unified Fabric combines data center and storage networks to deliver a single high-performance, highly available, and scalable network. With the Cisco Nexus 6001, Cisco can support end-to-end data center convergence, from the server to storage, by delivering multihop FCoE capability in the data center. The Cisco Nexus 6000 series switch provides 40-Gbps FCoE support, surpassing the 16-Gbps Fiber Channel capability.
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High-performance computing
The Cisco Nexus 6001 can be deployed as a high-density Small Form-Factor (SFF) access-layer switch to consolidate a large number of 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers in deployments that call for only a small number of hops from the server to the upstream network to reduce latency. The Cisco Nexus 6001 has a high density of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports per rack unit, approximately 1 microsecond of latency port to port for any packet size, integrated line-rate Layer 2 and 3 features, scalability, and integrated data analytics with programmability. It addresses the needs of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-frequency trading (HFT) environments, for which InfiniBand solutions lack management visibility and high performance of bulk data transfers across traditional applications.
