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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Power Supply
The Cisco Nexus 5596T uses a front-end power supply. The chassis has slots for two power supplies.
The Cisco Nexus 5596T switch is fully functional with one power supply, but you can include a second
power supply for power redundancy.
Table 1 -1 lists the power supplies that you can order with the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform switches.
Note Front to Back (FAF) Airflow and DC Power Supply is now supported for the Cisco Nexus 5596T. For
details see the Cisco Nexus 5500 Datasheet.
Figure 1-8 , Figure1-9, Figure 1-10, Figure 1-11show the power supplies that can be ordered with the
Cisco Nexus 5500 switches. For more information on the LEDs, see TableD-1 on page D-2.
Note Never leave a power supply slot empty. If you remove a power supply, replace it with another one. If you
do not have a replacement power supply, leave the non functioning one in place until you can replace it.
Fan Module
The Cisco Nexus 5596T switch has four fan modules. Although the switch can function when a fan stops
functioning within a fan module, if a whole fan module stops functioning, you must replace the fan
module. The Cisco Nexus 5596T supports the reverse air flow fan tray (N5596UP-FAN-B).
Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5596T switch supports both SFP and SFP+ Ethernet transceivers and SFP Fibre
Channel transceivers.
This section includes the following topics:
SFP+ Transceivers, page1-16
SFP+ Copper Cables, page 1-17
SFP Fibre Channel Transceivers, page1-17
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.
Model Description
SFP-10G-SR 10-Gigabit Ethernet—short range SFP+ module
SFP-10G-LR(=) 10GBASE-LR SFP+ Module
SFP-10G-ER(=) 10GBASE-ER-SFP+ Module