Cisco Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 Fabric Modules

The Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 fabric modules provide interconnection between line cards and provide fabric channels to the supervisor modules. The Nexus 7000 has five fabric modules, and the Nexus 7700 has six; adding fabric modules increases the available bandwidth per I/O slot because all fabric modules are connected to all slots. Figure 2-23 shows the different fabric modules for the Nexus 7000 and Nexus 7700 products.

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Figure 2-23 Cisco Nexus 7000 Fabric Module

In the case of Nexus 7000, when using Fabric Module 1, which is 46 Gbps, you can deliver a maximum of 230 Gbps per slot using five fabric ...

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