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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
OL-15902-01
Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Figure1-13 Front View of the Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch
The management and console ports are in a 2 x 2 stacked RJ-45 jack. Figure 1-2 shows a close-up view
of these ports. For information about the connector port LEDs, see TableD-1 on page D-2.
The rear of the Cisco Nexus 5596T chassis, shown in Figure1-14, has 32 fixed ports of 10GBASE-T and
16 fixed ports of SFP+. It also has up to three expansion slots.
Figure1-14 Rear View of the Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch
1USB port 4System status LED
2Management 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)
5Two power supplies
3Identifier LED 6Four fan modules