N2K-C2348TQ – Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender

N2K-C2348TQ Specification

Type

Cisco Nexus 2348TQ

Fabric extender host interfaces

48

Fabric extender host interface type

48 100M/1/10GBASE-T ports: RJ-45 connectors

Fabric extender fabric interfaces

6 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP (24 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet)

Fabric extender fabric interface type

Fiber: QSFP-40G-SR-BD, QSFP-40G-SR4,QSFP-40G-SR4-S, QSFP-40G-LR4, QSFP-40G-LR4-S, and QSFP-40G-CSR4-S

Copper: 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ active Twinax cables (QSFP-H40G-ACU7M and QSFP-H40G-ACU10M (no passive cables)

AOC cables: QSFP-H40G-AOC1M, QSFP-H40G-AOC2M, QSFP-H40G-AOC3M, QSFP-H40G-AOC5M, QSFP-H40G-AOC7M, QSFP-H40G-AOC10M, and QSFP-H40G-AOC15M

AOC breakout cables: QSFP-4X10G-AOC1M, QSFP-4X10G-AOC2M, QSFP-4X10G-AOC3M, QSFP-4X10G-AOC5M, QSFP-4X10G-AOC7M, and QSFP-4X10G-AOC10M

Copper breakout cables: QSFP-4x10G-AC7M and QSFP-4x10G-AC10M (no passive cables)

Distance between Cisco Nexus 2300 fabric extender and Cisco Nexus 5500 switch is up to 10 km (up to 3 km for FCoE traffic), and for the Cisco Nexus 5600 switch or 6000 Series Switch the distance is up to 3 km (300m for FCoE traffic)

All equivalent S-class optics are supported

Cisco 40GBASE QSFP to SFP+/SFP adapter (CVR-QSFP-SFP10G)

Fabric speed

Up to 240 Gbps in each direction
(480-Gbps full duplex)

Oversubscription

Up to 2:1

Performance

Hardware forwarding at 1440 Gbps or 2160 mpps

FCoE

FCoE support up to 30m with Category 6a and 7 cables (Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 platforms and 6000 Series)

Cisco parent switch

Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 platforms

Cisco Nexus 6000 Series

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and 7700 platform

Cisco Nexus 9300 and 9500 Series

Minimum software

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.1(0)N1(1)
(Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 platforms and 6000 Series)

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.2.0D1(1)

(Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and 7700 platform)

Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I2(1)

(Cisco Nexus 9300 Series and 9500 platform)

Dimensions (H x W x D)

1.72 x 17.3 x 17.07 in. (4.37 x 43.94 x 43.36 cm)

Weight

17.7 lbs. (8.0 kg)

Environment

Operating temperature: 32 to 131°F (0 to 55°C)

Non-operating temperature: -40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)

Humidity: 5 to 95 percent (noncondensing)

Altitude: 0 to 10,000 ft. (0 to 3000m)

Power supply

N2200-PAC-400W,
N2200-PAC-400W-B,
N2200-PDC-400W,
N2200-PDC-350W-B, NXA-PHV-500W, and NXA-PHV-500W-B

Fan modules

NXA-FAN-30CFM-F and NXA-FAN-30CFM-B (N+1 redundancy = 3 fans)

Typical input operating power

280W at 30m (maximum 350W)

Heat dissipation

952 BTU/hour (typical); 1190 BTU/hour (maximum)

Regulatory Compliance

Products should comply with CE Markings according to directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC

Safety

• UL 60950-1
• CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1EN 60950-1
• IEC 60950-1AS/NZS 60950-1GB4943

EMC: Emissions

• 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
• AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A
• CISPR22 Class A
• EN55022 Class A
• ICES003 Class A
• VCCI Class A
• EN61000-3-2
• EN61000-3-3
• KN22 Class A
• CNS13438 Class A

EMC: Immunity

• EN50082-1
• EN61000-6-1
• EN55024
• CISPR24
• EN300386
• KN 61000-4 series

RoHS

The Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ, 2348TQ, and 2332TQ are RoHS-6 compliant

Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS)

The Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ, 2348TQ, and 2332TQ meet NEBS level-3 standards (hardware revision 3) (not currently supported)

Description

Specification

Layer 2 features

• Layer 2 VLAN trunks
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
• Cisco EtherChannel technology on uplinks
• PortChannel on server ports on Cisco Nexus 2300 platforms
• Advanced PortChannel hashing
• Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
• Pause frames (Priority Flow Control [PFC] and IEEE 802.3x)
• Private VLANs (promiscuous only on uplinks)
• Local multicast replication on Cisco Nexus 2300 platform (8000 entries)
• Autonegotiation to 1000BASE-T; full duplex on host interfaces

Enhanced Ethernet

• DCB

Quality of service (QoS)

• Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS])
• Eight hardware queues per port (Cisco Nexus 2300 platforms)
• Per-port QoS configuration
• Local policing on Cisco Nexus 2300 platform (64 policers)
• CoS trust
• Configurable tail-drop threshold on Cisco Nexus 2300 platform
• Egress strict-priority queuing
• Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round Robin (WRR)

High availability

• Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules
• 1:1 power redundancy
• Uplink traffic management through Cisco EtherChannel hashing or static port pinning
• vPCs for dual-homed active-active connectivity across two Cisco Nexus parent switches
• vPCs for dual-homed straight-through NIC connectivity across two Cisco Nexus 2300 platform fabric extenders
• In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

Security

• Local classification (256 access control list [ACL] entries)

Management

• Fabric extender management using in-band management
• Locator and beacon LEDs on front and back of chassis (locator beacons on the front and rear of the chassis help reduce errors when the equipment is serviced)
• Per-port locator and beacon LEDs
• Syslog
• Simple Network Management Protocol Versions 1, 2, and 3 (SNMP v1, v2, and v3)
• Enhanced SNMP MIB support
• XML (NETCONF) support
• Remote Monitoring (RMON)
• Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2
• Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) source on server ports
• Power-on self-test (POST)
• Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD): Ethernet
• Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests
• CiscoWorks
• Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM); the Cisco Nexus 2300 platform is managed through the parent Cisco Nexus switch using DCNM and standard SNMP, XML interface, and command-line interface (CLI)

Configuration MIBs

• ENTITY-MIB
• IF-MIB
• FABRIC-EXTENDER MIB
• CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
• CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB
• CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
• CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB

Monitoring MIBs

• RMON-MIB

Industry standards

• IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization
• IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging
• IEEE 802.3: Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• SFF 8431 SFP+ support
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX specification
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T specification
• IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T
• 10GBASE-SR
• 10GBASE-LR
• RMON
• SFF-8461