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Optical Transceivers for Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switch
2016-11-17
N5K-C5010P-B-S Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch SFP Switch Type Of Tutorial

Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switch Overview

N5K-C5596T-FA belongs to the Cisco Catalyst Nexus 5000 Series Switches; these switches are ideal for traditional or fully automated data center deployments. The Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch is a 2RU form factor, with 32 fixed ports of 10GBASE-T and 16 fixed ports of SFP+. The switch also supports up to three expansion slots. The switch supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet (fiber and copper), Fiber Channel, and FCoE, offering up to 1920 Gbps of throughput and up to 96 ports. The switch supports unified ports on all SFP+ ports. The hardware for the 10GBASE-T ports is capable of supporting FCoE.

Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switch

Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switch Parameters

Device Type 
Switch - 48 ports - Managed              
Enclosure Type
Rack-mountable 2U
Subtype
10 Gigabit Ethernet
Ports
32 x 10GBase-T + 16 x SFP+
Performance
Forwarding performance: 1920 Gbps
MAC Address Table Size
32K entries
Jumbo Frame Support
9216 bytes
Remote Management Protocol
SNMP 1, SNMP 2, RMON, Telnet, SNMP 3, SSH-2, CLI
Features

Layer 2 switching, ARP support, VLAN support, Syslog support, Weighted Round Robin (WRR) queuing,

Broadcast Storm Control, Multicast Storm Control, Unicast Storm Control, Multiple Spanning Tree

Protocol (MSTP) support, DHCP snooping, Access Control List (ACL) support, Quality of Service (QoS),

Jumbo Frames support, Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+), Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)       

Compliant Standards 
IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 801.1p
Power
AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz ) 
Power Redundancy
Yes
Dimensions (WxDxH)
43.9 cm x 74.9 cm x 8.8 cm 
Weight
21.55 kg

Optical Transceivers for Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switch 

Based on the SFP (optical module form factor) Gigabit Ethernet ports accommodate range SFP (optical module form factor) optical transceivers, including Cisco 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable. For more information on these Cisco optical transceivers, please check the following table.
MFG Part number
Description 
Price
SFP-10G-SR
Cisco SFP-10G-SR Compatible 10GBASE-SR SFP+ 850nm 300m DOM Transceiver 
US$16.00 
SFP-10G-LR
Cisco SFP-10G-LR Compatible 10GBASE-LR SFP+ 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver 
US$32.55 
SFP-10G-SR-S
Cisco SFP-10G-SR-S Transceiver Module Compatible 10G 10G SFP+ 850nm 300m
US$16.00
SFP-10G-LR-S
Cisco SFP-10G-LR-S Transceiver Module Compatible 10G 10G SFP+ 1310nm 10km 
US$32.55 
SFP-H10GB-CU1M 
Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU1M Compatible 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable (1-meter, passive, SFP+ to SFP+, 30AWG) 

SFP-H10GB-CU3M
Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU3M Compatible 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable (3-meter, passive, SFP+ to SFP+, 30AWG) 

SFP-H10GB-CU5M 
Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU5M Compatible 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable (5-meter, passive, SFP+ to SFP+, 24AWG) 

SFP-H10GB-ACU7M
Cisco SFP-H10GB-ACU7M Compatible 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable (7-meter, active, SFP+ to SFP+, 30AWG) 

SFP-H10GB-ACU10M
Cisco SFP-H10GB-ACU10M Compatible 10G SFP+ DAC Twinax Cable (10-meter, active, SFP+ to SFP+, 28AWG)

Note: Cozlink compatible with Cisco optical module. For more information, please feel free to contact us.

How to determine what types of optical transceivers for Cisco switches?

1. Finding the corresponding optical module compatibility matrix via Cisco official website. 
2. On the running switches, enter the privileged mode and input # "show idprom interface gi1 / 0/48" command, you can query the optical module model and serial number, If not, try to input other two commands: xuxic or show idprom int g2/6
3. Checking the type and port based on the specification, it can be used as long as it is gigabit SFP optical module interface. But the specific models to be decided according to the actual demand, such as type, the actual use of distance, single-mode or multimode, single fiber or dual fiber etc. Welcome to consult Cozlink engineer.

Summary

The Cisco N5K-C5596T-FA Switches are an excellent match, with low latency and choice of front-to-back or back-to-front cooling, copper or fiber access ports, and rear-facing data ports. These switches support a huge number of Gigabit Ethernet SFP optical transceivers. All these high quality fiber optic transceivers can be found on Cozlink for great prices. Cozlink also make sure to provide its customers same day shipping. You can also choose fiber optic pigtails and high speed cables from a great range of products on Cozlink.
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