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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Caution You must order all fan modules and power supplies in the same chassis so that they have the same
direction of airflow with coolant air entering the chassis from the cold aisle and exhausting to the hot
aisle.
Figure1-12 Cisco Nexus 5596 Fan Module
The bicolor status LED indicates fan tray health. Green indicates normal operation, while amber
indicates a fan failure. For more information about LEDs, see TableD-1 on page D-2.
Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5596 switch supports both SFP and SFP+ Ethernet transceivers and SFP Fibre Channel
transceivers.
This section includes the following topics:
SFP+ Transceivers, page1-11
SFP+ Copper Cables, page 1-12
SFP Fibre Channel Transceivers, page1-12
CWDM Optics, page 1-12
SFP+ Transceivers
The enhanced SFP+ 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceiver module is a bidirectional device with a transmitter
and receiver in the same physical package. It has a 20-pin connector on the electrical interface and
duplex LC connector on the optical interface.The Cisco Nexus 5596 supports the SFP-10G-SR
transceiver.
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