Cisco Nexus 5596UP 96 SFP+ ports Switch

The Nexus 5500 Series serves as the foundation of Cisco’s data center switching portfolio, offering low-latency, high-bandwidth performance. Moreover, it is specifically designed for environments that demand high-density connections and seamless scalability. In addition, this series integrates both Ethernet and Fibre Channel services, enabling support for a diverse range of workloads, including virtualized applications, cloud services, and high-performance computing. As a result, the Nexus 5000 Series stands out as a highly versatile solution, capable of meeting the evolving demands of modern data centers

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Cisco Nexus 5500 Series  Datasheet

The Cisco Nexus 5596UP is a high-performance, highly scalable network switch, designed specifically for data center environments. As part of the Nexus 5500 Series, it delivers advanced features and enterprise-level capabilities, making it an ideal choice for modern networking needs. Furthermore, the Nexus 5596UP ensures seamless scalability, offering high-density 10GbE and 40GbE support, along with flexible fiber-optic uplinks. In addition, it provides exceptional reliability, low latency, and robust management capabilities, making it a trusted solution for organizations seeking to deploy next-generation data centers.

Key Features:

• High Performance and Scalability: The Nexus 5596UP provides a switching capacity of 1.92 Tbps and 1.44 million packets per second (Mpps) forwarding rate, supporting 48 SFP+ ports for 1/10GbE and up to 16 fiber uplink ports. This makes it suitable for high-demand, high-traffic environments such as data centers and cloud infrastructures.
• Enhanced Security: The switch offers integrated Cisco TrustSec security, enabling role-based access control (RBAC) and network segmentation for improved protection. It also supports MAC address security, port security, and 802.1X authentication for better defense against unauthorized access.
• Energy-Efficient Design: The Nexus 5596UP includes hot-swappable power supplies and fans that provide redundancy and energy efficiency, making it an eco-friendly solution while maintaining high uptime for mission-critical applications.
• Unified Fabric: The Nexus 5596UP supports both Ethernet and Fibre Channel over the same fabric, simplifying data center architecture by reducing the need for multiple networks for different services. This consolidation boosts both performance and cost-efficiency.
• Advanced Management Capabilities: With support for Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), CLI, SNMP, RMON, XML, and JSON, this switch enables centralized management, automation, and monitoring, simplifying operations and providing deep visibility into network performance.
• Low Latency and High Availability: The Nexus 5596UP is designed with low-latency switching to meet the demands of applications that require rapid data processing. Redundant power supplies and fans, along with stacking and virtual device contexts (VDC), provide high availability, ensuring continuous operation in the event of component failure.