Cisco is introducing the Cisco Nexus®
2232TM-E 10GE Fabric Extender as part of the
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (Figure 1). The Cisco Nexus 2232TM-E
10GE builds on the success of the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series and the benefits of
10GBASE-T technology. The platform is a superset of the Cisco Nexus 2232TM
10GE Fabric Extender, with the same underlying architecture and the latest
generation of the 10GBASE-T physical layer device (PHY), enabling lower power
consumption and an improved bit-error rate (BER). It supports highly scalable 1 and
10GBASE-T environments, with ease of migration from 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T
and flexible use of Category 6, 6a, and 7 cabling. It includes an uplink module that
supports eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces.
The Cisco Nexus 2232TM-E 10GE offers the following features:
