Cisco 5596T-FA Switch – Flexible Data Center Core

●  MAC address table entries: 32,000

●  Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

●  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

●  Expansion modules

●  16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

●  8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

●  Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE

●  4-port QSFP expansion module

●  12-port 10G BASE-T module (Cisco Nexus 5596T only)

●  Layer 3 module (Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system)

●  Layer 3 daughter card (Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system)

●  Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series

●  IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

●  Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)

●  Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances

●  Spanning Tree PortFast

●  Spanning Tree root guard

●  Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance

●  Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)

●  Cisco vPC technology

●  Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host

●  vPC configuration synchronization

●  Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad

●  Advanced port channel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information

●  Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)

●  Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)

●  Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

●  Private VLANs

●  Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)

●  Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels

●  VLAN Remapping

●  Cisco FabricPath

●  EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath

●  Cisco Adapter FEX

●  Cisco Data Center VM FEX

●  Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform

●  Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries

●  Support for up to 8000 multicast routes

●  Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups

●  Support for 1000 VRF entries

●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

●  16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)

●  1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries

●  Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

●  IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)

●  IPv6 VRF Lite

●  Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

●  ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL

●  Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

●  Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast

●  Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes

●  Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)

●  Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules

●  RFC 896