Physical

1RU fixed form factor

72x 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (48 SFP+ and 6 QSFP+)

48 SFP ports support 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet

6 QSFP ports support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet each

Redundant fans (3+1)

2 redundant power supplies

Management, console, and USB flash-memory ports

Performance

1.4-Tbps switching capacity

Forwarding rate of up to 1 bpps

Line-rate traffic throughput (both Layer 2 and 3) on all ports

Configurable maximum transmission units (MTUs) of up to 9216 bytes (jumbo frames)

MAC addresses

288,000

Number of VLANS

4096

Spanning-tree instances

RSTP: 512

MSTP: 64

ACL entries

4000 ingress

1000 egress

Routing table

16,000 prefixes and 16,000 host entries

8000 multicast routes

Number of EtherChannels

64 (with vPC)

Number of ports per EtherChannel

32

System memory

4 GB

Buffer size

12 MB shared

Boot flash memory

16 GB

Number of power supplies

2

Power supply types

AC (forward and reversed airflow)

- N2200-PAC-400W and N2200-PAC-400W-B (PQ models)

- NXA-PAC-500W and NX-PAC-500W-B (TQ models)

DC (forward and reversed airflow)

- N2200-PDC-400W and N3K-PDC-350W-B (PQ models)

- NXA-PDC-500W and NX-PDC-500W-B (TQ models)

Typical operating power

143W

Maximum power

440W

AC PSUs

Input voltage

Frequency

Efficiency

100 to 240 VAC

50 to 60 Hz

89 to 91% at 220V

DC PSUs

Input voltage

Maximum current

Efficiency

-40 to -72 VDC

33A (400W unit), 42A (500W unit)

85 to 88%

Cooling

Forward and reversed airflow schemes

Forward airflow: Port-side exhaust (air enters through fan-tray and power supplies and exits through ports)

Reversed airflow: Port-side intake (air enters through ports and exits through fan tray and power supplies)

Single fan tray with redundant fans

Hot swappable (must swap within 1 minute)

Measured sound power (maximum)

Fan speed: 40% duty cycle

Fan speed: 60% duty cycle

Fan speed: 100% duty cycle

64.9 dBA

69.3 dBA

76.7 dBA

Dimensions (height x width x depth)

1.72 x 17.3 x 19.7 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 50.5 cm)

Weight

22.0 lb (10 kg)

Operating temperature

32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)

Storage temperature

-40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)

Operating relative humidity

10 to 85% noncondensing

Up to 5 days at maximum (85%) humidity

Recommend ASHRAE data center environment

Storage relative humidity

5 to 95% noncondensing

Altitude

0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m)

Regulatory compliance

Products should comply with CE Markings per directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC.

Safety

UL 60950-1 Second Edition

CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition

EN 60950-1 Second Edition

IEC 60950-1 Second Edition

AS/NZS 60950-1

GB4943

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

EN55024

CISPR24

EN300386

KN24

RoHS

RoHS 5 compliant except for lead press-fit connectors

Standards

IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.1p: CoS Prioritization

● IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN Tagging

● IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN Instances of Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.1w: Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.3z: Gigabit Ethernet

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

● IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Cisco Nexus 3064-X)

● IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet

● IEEE 802.3an:10GBASE-T (Cisco Nexus 3064-T)

● IEEE 802.1ab: LLDP

● IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock)

RFC

BGP

● RFC 1997: BGP Communities Attribute

● RFC 2385: Protection of BGP Sessions with the TCP MD5 Signature Option

● RFC 2439: BGP Route Flap Damping

● RFC 2519: Framework for Interdomain Route Aggregation

● RFC 2545: Use of BGPv4 Multiprotocol Extensions

● RFC 2858: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGPv4

● RFC 3065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP

● RFC 3392: Capabilities Advertisement with BGPv4

● RFC 4271: BGPv4

● RFC 4273: BGPv4 MIB: Definitions of Managed Objects for BGPv4

● RFC 4456: BGP Route Reflection

● RFC 4486: Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message

● RFC 4724: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP

● RFC 4893: BGP Support for 4-Octet AS Number Space

OSPF

● RFC 2328: OSPF Version 2

● 8431RFC 3101: OSPF Not-So-Stubby-Area (NSSA) Option

● RFC 3137: OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

● RFC 3509: Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border Routers

● RFC 3623: Graceful OSPF Restart

● RFC 4750: OSPF Version 2 MIB

RIP

● RFC 1724: RIPv2 MIB Extension

● RFC 2082: RIPv2 MD5 Authentication

● RFC 2453: RIP Version 2

IP Services

● RFC 768: UDP

● RFC 783: Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

● RFC 791: IP

● RFC 792: ICMP

● RFC 793: TCP

● RFC 826: ARP

● RFC 854: Telnet

● RFC 959: FTP

● RFC 1027: Proxy ARP

● RFC 1305: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3

● RFC 1519: Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)

● RFC 1542: BootP Relay

● RFC 1591: Domain Name System (DNS) Client

● RFC 1812: IPv4 Routers

● RFC 2131: DHCP Helper

● RFC 2338: VRRP

IP Multicast

● RFC 2236: IGMPv2

● RFC 3376: IGMPv3

● RFC 3446: Anycast Rendezvous Point Mechanism Using PIM and MSDP

● RFC 3569: Overview of SSM

● RFC 3618: MSDP

● RFC 4601: PIM-SM: Protocol Specification (Revised)

● RFC 4607: SSM for IP

● RFC 4610: Anycast-RP using PIM

● RFC 5132: IP Multicast MIB

Layer 2

Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks

● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

● Support for up to 4096 VLANs

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

● MSTP (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances

● Spanning Tree PortFast

● Spanning Tree Root Guard

● Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance

● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 32 ports per EtherChannel)

● LACP: IEEE 802.3ad

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

● vPC

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

● Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

● Private VLANs

● NvGRE entropy

● Resilient hashing

Layer 3

Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on interfaces, switch virtual interfaces (SVIs), port channels, and subinterfaces (total:

1024)

● 64-way ECMP

● 4000 ingress and 1000 egress ACL entries

● IPv6 routing: Static, OSPFv3, and BGPv6

● Routing protocols: Static, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP

● Bidirectional Flow Detection (BFD) for BGP, OSPF, and IPv4 static routes

● HSRP and VRRP

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

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

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

● Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)

● Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunneling

● Advanced BGP features including BGP add-path for eBGP and iBGP, remove-private-as enhancements and eBGP

next hop unchanged

● IP-in-IP Tunnel support

Multicast

Multicast: PIMv2, PIM-SM, and PIM-SSM

● Bootstrap router (BSR), Auto-RP, and Static RP

● MSDP and Anycast RP

● Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Versions 2 and 3

Quality of Service (QoS)

Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS])

● 8 hardware queues per port

● Per-port QoS configuration

● CoS trust

● Port-based CoS assignment

● Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance

● ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4)

● MQC CoS marking

● Differentiated services code point (DSCP) marking

● Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)

● CoS-based egress queuing

● Egress strict-priority queuing

● Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)

● Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)

● Configurable ECN marking per port

● Priority Flow Control (with 3 no-drop queues and 1 default queue with strict priority scheduling between queues

● Policy Based Routing (PBR)

Security

Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet

● Standard and extended Layer 3 and 4 ACLs include IPv4, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), TCP, and User

Datagram Protocol (UDP)

● VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

● Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

● Named ACLs

● ACLs on virtual terminals (vtys)

● DHCP snooping with Option 82

● Port number in DHCP Option 82

● DHCP relay

● Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection

● Configurable CoPP

● SPAN with ACL filtering

Cisco Nexus Data Broker

Topology support for TAP and SPAN aggregation

● Support for QinQ to tag input source TAP and SPAN ports

● Configuration of symmetric hashing to load-balance traffic to multiple tools

● Traffic filtering based on Layer 1 through Layer 4 header information

● Traffic replication and forwarding to multiple monitoring tools

● Robust RBAC

● Northbound representational state transfer (REST) API for all programmability support

Management

POAP

● Python scripting

● Cisco EEM

● Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports

● CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management

● In-band switch management

● Locator and beacon LEDs

● Configuration rollback

● SSHv2

● Secure Copy (SCP) server

● Telnet

● AAA

● AAA with RBAC

● RADIUS

● TACACS+

● Syslog

● Syslog generation on system resources (for example, FIB tables)

● Embedded packet analyzer

● SNMP v1, v2, and v3

● Enhanced SNMP MIB support

● XML (NETCONF) support

● Remote monitoring (RMON)

● Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic

● Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP

● Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)

● Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server

● Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2

● RBAC

● SPAN on physical layer, port channel, and VLAN

● Tunable buffer allocation for SPAN

● Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)

● Ingress and egress packet counters per interface

● PTP (IEEE 1588) boundary clock

● Network Time Protocol (NTP)

● Cisco OHMS

● Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests

● Cisco Call Home

● Cisco DCNM

● Advanced buffer utilization monitoring

● sFlow