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Cisco UCS Unified Fabric
January 2016
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Unified Network
Fabric, 4 to Each
Fabric Extender
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric A
40-Gbps Bandwidth
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Hardware
PortChannels
Mezzanine LOM
Card Form
Factor
Fibre Channel HBAs
Primary
Path
Secondary
Path
More Than 256 
Programmable Virtual
Interfaces
Ethernet NICs
Cisco UCS
VIC 1340
4 Additional Connections
Enabled Through Optional
Port Expander Card
Figure 8. The Mezzanine-Based Port Expander Provides Two 40-Gbps Interfaces 
Through a Hardware Port Channel
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8 10GBASE-KR
Unified Network
Fabric, 4 to Each
Fabric Extender
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric A
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric B
Hardware
PortChannels
Mezzanine LOM
Card Form
Factor
Fibre Channel HBAs
Primary
Path
Secondary
Path
More Than 256 
Programmable Virtual
Interfaces
Ethernet NICs
Cisco UCS
VIC 1340
4 Additional Connections
Enabled Through Optional
Port Expander Card
Figure 9. The Cisco UCS 2304 Fabric Extender Exposes True Native 40-Gbps Unified 
Fabric Interfaces in Conjunction with the Cisco UCS VIC 1340 and an Optional Port 
Expander Card