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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Chapter 1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Caution
All of the power supply and fan modules in the same chassis must use the same airflow direction or an
error will occur with possible over heating and shut down of the switch. If you power up the switch with
more than one airflow direction, you must power down the switch and replace the modules with the
wrong airflow direction (modules not taking in coolant air from the cold aisle) before powering up the
switch.
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Cisco Nexus 5596 Fan Module
The bicolor status LED indicates fan tray health. Green indicates normal operation, while amber
indicates a fan failure. For more information about LEDs, see
Table D-1 on page D-2
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Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5596 switch supports both SFP and SFP+ Ethernet transceivers and SFP Fibre Channel
transceivers.
This section includes the following topics:
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SFP+ Transceivers, page 1-11
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SFP+ Copper Cables, page 1-12
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SFP Fibre Channel Transceivers, page 1-12
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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.The Cisco Nexus 5596 supports the SFP-10G-SR
transceiver.
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