NEW Cisco N7K-C7010-FAB-2 Nexus 7010 110 Gbps/Slot Fabric 2 Module

The Cisco N7K-C7010-FAB-2 is the Fabric-2 crossbar module for the Cisco Nexus 7010 chassis. Each module contributes 110 Gbps of switching bandwidth to every I/O slot, and the 7010 carries up to five of them, taking each slot to 550 Gbps and system capacity beyond 15 Tbps. Fabric modules install behind the fan trays and run in an active-active arrangement, so capacity scales one module at a time and a failed module degrades bandwidth gracefully instead of taking slots down.

Matching fabric generation to line cards is the reason this part gets bought. F2, F2e, and later modules only reach their rated throughput on Fabric-2, so a 7010 upgraded from Fabric-1 needs a full set of five to unlock what the line cards can do, and NX-OS 6.0 or later is required. The part is specific to the 10-slot chassis: the 7009 and 7018 use their own N7K-C7009-FAB-2 and N7K-C7018-FAB-2 versions, so check your chassis model before ordering. At four pounds the module ships easily, and keeping a spare on hand is cheap insurance for a chassis whose uptime usually matters more than anything else in the room.

This Cisco N7K-C7010-FAB-2 fabric module is new and covered by the NetworkTigers one-year warranty. The original packaging may have been opened to inspect the contents.