Cisco Nexus 5696Q DATA CENTER Switch

Performance
● Cisco Nexus 5624Q: Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 1.92 Tbps 
● Cisco Nexus 5648Q: Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 3.84 Tbps 
● Cisco Nexus 5696Q: Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 7.68 Tbps 
● Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and ARP entries 
● Low-latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 40 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 
● 25-MB buffer per 12x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces or three 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP interfaces 
● Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in layer 2 and layer 3 mode

Interfaces
Cisco Nexus 5696Q 
● Up to 96 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports through the use of 8 expansion modules 
● 12-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE expansion module 
● 20-port unified expansion module 
● 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface with QSFP breakout cable 
● 1 Gigabit Ethernet interface through a QSFP to SFP and SFP+ adapter (QSA) 
● Fabric Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms 

Layer 2 Features
● Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks 
● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation 
● Support for up to 4000 VLANs 
● Support for up to 4000 access control list (ACL) entries 
● Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible) 
● Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances 
● Spanning Tree PortFast 
● Spanning Tree Root Guard 
● Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance 
● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel) 
● Cisco vPC technology 
● vPC configuration synchronization 
● vPC shutdown 
● Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad 
● Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information 
● Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes) 
● Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
● Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast) 
● Private VLANs 
● Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous) 
● Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels 
● VLAN remapping 
● Cisco FabricPath 
● EvPC and vPC+ with Cisco FabricPath 
● Cisco Adapter FEX 
● Cisco Data Center VM-FEX 
● Support for up to 48 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each switch 
● RoCE using DCB support (DCBX No Drop and PFC)

Layer 3 Features
● Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports, switch virtual interface (SVI), PortChannels, subinterfaces, and PortChannel subinterfaces 
● Support for up to 32,000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host prefixes 
● Support for up to 8000 multicast routes (IPv4) 
● Support for up to 8000 IGMP snooping groups 
● Support for 4000 Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) entries 
● Support for up to 4096 VLANs 
● Equal-Cost Multipathing (ECMP) up to 64 ways 
● 4000 flexible ACL entries 
● Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) 
● IPv6 routing protocols: Static, OPFv3, BGPv6, and EIGRPv6 
● IPv6 VRF-lite 
● BFD support: OSPFv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, and VRFs 
● Policy-Based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6) 
● Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) 
● IPdirect broadcast 
● vPC+ Routing Protocol Peering 
● ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACLs 
● Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), Bidir-PIM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), IGMPv2 and v3, and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) 
● VRF: VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast 
● Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes 
● Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes) 
● Support for up to 24 fabric extenders (Layer 3) on each Cisco Nexus 5600 platform switch

Quality of Service (QoS)
● Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS]) 
● 8 unicast queues and 8 multicast queues per port 
● Per-port QoS configuration 
● CoS trust 
● Port-based CoS assignment 
● Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance: IPv4 and IPv6 
● ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4) 
● Flexible TCAM carving 
● MAC/ARP hardware carving 
● MQC CoS marking 
● Per-port virtual output queuing 
● CoS-based egress queuing 
● Egress strict-priority queuing 
● Egress port-based scheduling: Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (DWRR) 
● Control-Plane Policing (CoPP): IPv4 and IPv6

Security
● Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports 
● Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc. 
● Standard and extended Layer 3 and 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc. 
● Ingress policing 
● VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs) 
● Port-based ACLs (PACLs) 
● Named ACLs 
● Optimized ACL distribution
● ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)
● ACL logging (IPv4 only) 
● Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82
● Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection
● IP source guard
● DHCP relay (up to 32 destinations)
● Ethernet Port Security
● IPv6 RACL, PACL, and VACL
● iSCSI TLV

High-Availability Features
● ISSU for Layer 2 
● Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules 
● N+1 and N+N power redundancy 
● N+1 fan module redundancy

Management
● 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 
● Port-based locator and beacon LEDs 
● Configuration synchronization 
● Configuration rollback 
● Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) 
● Telnet 
● Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) 
● AAA with RBAC 
● RADIUS 
● TACACS+ 
● Syslog (8 servers) 
● Embedded packet analyzer 
● SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 and IPv6) 
● 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, PortChannel and VLAN 
● ERSPAN 
● Ingress and egress packet counters per interface 
● Network Time Protocol (NTP) 
● Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) 
● Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests 
● Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
● Cisco Call Home 
● Cisco Smart Call Home 
● Default Interface 
● Cisco Fabric Manager 
● Cisco Prime DCNM 
● CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging
● CEE- and IEEE-compliant priority flow control (PFC; per-priority Pause frame support: IEEE 802.1Qbb) 
● PFC link distance support: 20 km at 10G & 3 km at 40G 
● CEE-compliant Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) Protocol 
● CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection

SNMP MIBs
Generic MIBs 
● SNMPv2-SMI 
● CISCO-SMI 
● SNMPv2-TM 
● SNMPv2-TC 
● IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB 
● IANAifType-MIB 
● IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB 
● HCNUM-TC 
● CISCO-TC 
● SNMPv2-MIB 
● SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB 
● SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB 
● SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB 
● SNMP-TARGET-MIB 
● SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB 
● SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB 
● CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB

Layer 3 MIBs 
● UDP-MIB 
● TCP-MIB 
● OSPF-MIB 
● BGP4-MIB 
● CISCO-HSRP-MIB

Ethernet MIBs 
● CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB 
● CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB 
● CISCO-VTP-MIB

Configuration MIBs 
● ENTITY-MIB 
● IF-MIB 
● CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB 
● CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB 
● CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB 
● CISCO-FLASH-MIB 
● CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB 
● CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB 
● CISCO-IP-IF-MIB 
● CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB 
● CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB 
● CISCO-NTP-MIB 
● CISCO-IMAGE-MIB 
● CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB 
● CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB 
● CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB 
● CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB 
● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

Monitoring MIBs 
● DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC 
● NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB 
● DIFFSERV-MIB 
● CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB 
● CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB 
● CISCO-PROCESS-MIB 
● RMON-MIB 
● CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB 
● CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB 
● LLDP-MIB

Security MIBs 
● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB 
● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB 
● CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB 
● CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB 
● CISCO-RADIUS-MIB 
● CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB 
● TCP/IP MIBs 
● INET-ADDRESS-MIB 
● TCP-MIB 
● CISCO-TCP-MIB 
● UDP-MIB 
● IP-MIB 
● CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB 
● CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB 
● CISCO-PORTSECURITY-MIB

Miscellaneous MIBs 
● START-MIB 
● CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB 
● CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB 
● CISCO-CDP-MIB 
● CISCO-RF-MIB 
● CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB 
● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB 
● CISCO-FCOE-MIB 
● CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB 
● CISCO-ZS-MIB

Typical operating power/heat dissipation
2800W

Maximum power/heat dissipation
3300W

Input voltage
94 to 240 VAC

Frequency
47 to 63 Hz

Efficiency
98% (50 to 100% load)

RoHS compliance
Yes