Cisco Systems N5KC5548UPFA User Manual

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1      Overview
    Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Switches
Caution
You must order all fan modules and power supplies in the same chassis so that they have the same 
direction of airflow with coolant air entering the chassis from the cold aisle and exhausting to the hot 
aisle. 
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Cisco Nexus 5596 Fan Module
The bicolor status LED indicates fan tray health. Green indicates normal operation, while amber 
indicates a fan failure. For more information about LEDs, see 
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Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5596 switch supports both SFP and SFP+ Ethernet transceivers and SFP Fibre Channel 
transceivers. 
This section includes the following topics:
SFP+ Transceivers
The enhanced SFP+ 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceiver module is a bidirectional device with a transmitter 
and receiver in the same physical package. It has a 20-pin connector on the electrical interface and 
duplex LC connector on the optical interface.The Cisco Nexus 5596 supports the SFP-10G-SR 
transceiver. 
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