Chassis
The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender is a 1 RU chassis that is designed for rack mounting. The
chassis supports redundant hot-swappable fans and power supplies.
Ethernet Interfaces
There are 8 models of the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender:
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The Cisco Nexus 2148T has 48 1000BASE-T Ethernet host interfaces for its downlink connection to
servers or hosts and 4 10-Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters for its uplink
connection to the parent switch.
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The Cisco Nexus 2224TP has 24 100BASE-T/1000Base-T Ethernet host interfaces for its downlink
connection to servers or hosts and 2 10-Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters
for its uplink connection to the parent switch.
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The Cisco Nexus 2248PQ has 48 10-Gigabit Ethernet host interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters and
16 10-Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces corresponding to 4 QSFP interface adapters for its uplink
connection to the parent switch.
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The Cisco Nexus 2232PP has 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet host interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters and
8 10-Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters for its uplink connection to the
parent switch.
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Cisco Nexus N2332TQ
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FEX supporting 32 10GBaseT host ports and 4 QSFP+ network ports.
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Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ
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FEX for QSA (FET-10G, SFP-10G-SR, SFP-10G-ER).
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Cisco Nexus 2348TQ FEX (N2K-C2348TQ-10GE)
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The Cisco Nexus 2248TP has 48 100BASE-T/1000Base-T Ethernet host interfaces for its downlink
connection to servers or hosts and 4 10-Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces with SFP+ interface adapters
for its uplink connection to the parent switch.
The Cisco Nexus 2248TP-E has all the features of the Cisco Nexus 2248TP with these additional features:
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A larger buffer to absorb large bursts.
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Support for an ingress and egress queue-limit per port.
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Support for debug counters.
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Support for pause no-drop behavior over a cable distance of 3000 meters between the Fabric
Extender and switch.
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Support for a user configurable shared-buffer.
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The Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender for HP (NB22HP) has 16 1G/10-Gigabit Ethernet host interfaces.
All host interfaces use all of the available fabric interfaces.
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The Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender for Fujitsu (NB22FTS) has 16 10-Gigabit Ethernet host interfaces.
All host interfaces use all of the available fabric interfaces.
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The Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender for Dell (NB22DELL) has 16 1G/10-Gigabit Ethernet host
interfaces. All host interfaces use all of the available fabric interfaces.
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series NX-OS Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
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Configuring the Fabric Extender
Chassis