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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Figure1-17 Cisco Nexus 5548 Switch Rear View
Note The L1/L2/Mgmt1 ports are not usable. They are disabled at this time
Expansion Modules
Expansion modules allow Cisco Nexus switches to be configured as cost-effective 10-Gigabit Ethernet
switches and as I/O consolidation platforms with native Fibre Channel connectivity.
The Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform is equipped with expansion modules that you can use to increase the
number of 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports or connect to Fibre Channel SANs with 8-, 4-, 2-, or
1-Gbps Fibre Channel switch ports. The chassis supports hot swapping of the expansion modules.
The Cisco Nexus 5548 supports one of the following expansion modules:
•N55 M16P Generic Expansion Module, page1-20
•N55 M8P8FP Generic Expansion Module, page1-21
•N55 M16UP Generic Expansion Module, page 1-22
N55 M16P Generic Expansion Module
The N55 M16P Generic Expansion Module (GEM) provides 16 1- or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports using the
SFP+ transceiver.
Figure 1-18 shows the components that you use to install this expansion module.
1ID LED 332 fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE ports (Cisco Nexus 5548UP) or
32 fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports (Cisco Nexus 5548P)
2Status LED 4Expansion module
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