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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Figure1-26 Cisco Nexus 5548 Fan Module
The bicolor fan module LED indicates the fan tray health. Green indicates normal operation, while
amber indicates a fan failure. For more information on this LED, see TableD-1 on page D-2. The Cisco
Nexus 5548UP has front-to-back or back-to-front airflow. The Cisco Nexus 5548P has front-to-back
airflow only.
Caution The airflow direction should be the same for power suplies and fan modules.
Transceivers and Cables
The Cisco Nexus 5548UP switch supports 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE SFP+ and FET transceivers,
and the Cisco Nexus 5548P switch supports 10-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ and FET transceivers. The
expansion modules support 1- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ transceivers (N55 M16P expansion
module), 10-Gigabit FET transceivers, and Fiber Channel SFP transceivers.
This section includes the following topics:
Transceivers, page1-26
Cables, page 1-28

Transceivers

Table 1 -3 lists the supported transceiver options.
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Table1-3 Supported Transceivers
Cisco SFP Description
FET-10G 10G SFP+ module for Cisco Nexus 2000 Series to Cisco Nexus 5000
Series connectivity
Cisco SFP-10G-SR 10GBASE-SR SFP+ module (multimode fiber [MMF])
Cisco SFP-10G-LR 10GBASE-LR SFP+ module (single-mode fiber [SMF])