Cables, Table 1-6 – Cisco 5000 Series User Manual

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide

OL-15902-01

Chapter 1 Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Overview

Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch

Table 1-6

SFP+ Copper Cables

SFP Fiber Channel Transceivers

The Cisco Nexus 5548 switch supports the multimode 850 nm 4Gbps SFP with 150 m reach. See

Table 1-7

.

Table 1-7

SFP Fiber Channel Transceivers

Cables

On the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platforms, you can use an innovative Twinax copper cable that connects to
standard SFP+ connectors for in-rack use, and on optical cable for longer cable runs.

For in-rack or adjacent-rack cabling, the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform supports SFP+ direct-attach
10-Gigabit Ethernet copper, which integrates transceivers with Twinax cables into an energy efficient,
low-cost, and low-latency solution. SFP+ direct-attach 10-Gigabit Twinax copper cables use only 0.1
watts of power per transceiver and introduce only approximately 0.25 microsecond of latency per link.

For longer cable runs, the Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform supports multimode, short-reach optical SFP+
transceivers. These optical transceivers use approximately 1 W per transceiver and have a latency of
less than 0.1 microsecond.

Table

Table 1-8

shows details of the cables supported:

Table 1-8

Supported Cables

Model

Description

SFP-H10GB-CU1M

10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 1 meter

SFP-H10GB-CU3M

10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 3 meters

SFP-H10GB-CU5M

10GBASE-CU SFP+ cable 5 meters

Model

Description

DS-SFP-FC4G-SW

4-Gbps Fibre Channel-SW SFP, LC

DS-SFP-FC4G-LW

4-Gbps Fibre Channel-LW SFP, LC, (10-km
reach)

Cisco DS-SFP-FC8G-SW

8-Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC

Cisco DS-SFP-FC8G-LW

8-Gbps Fibre Channel LW SFP+, LC

Connector (Media)

Cable

Distance

Power
(each
side)

Transceiver
Latency
(Link)

Standard

SFP+ CU copper

Twinax

5 m

~ 0.1 W ~ 0.1

microseconds

SFF 8431

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