N3K-C3524P-10GX Cisco Nexus 3524-X 24-Port SFP+ Switch

The N3K-C3524P-10GX is the Cisco Nexus 3524-X switch, a 1RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet fixed switch with 24 fixed SFP+ ports that run at 1 or 10 Gbps. A license expands it to 48 ports. Switching capacity is 480 Gbps with a forwarding rate of 360 million packets per second, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 throughput is line rate on all ports. MTU is configurable up to 9216 bytes.

Management and service ports are one 10/100/1000 Mbps management port, one RS-232 serial console port, two USB ports and one 1-PPS timing port. Memory is 4 GB system memory and 4 GB boot flash. Buffers total 18 MB, with 6 MB shared among 16 ports. Scale figures include 64,000 MAC addresses in normal mode, 4,096 VLANs and 4,096 ACL entries, and 24 EtherChannels with up to 24 ports each.

Power is dual redundant, hot-swappable AC or DC supplies on 100 to 240 VAC at 50 to 60 Hz. Typical operating power is 102 W and maximum power is 193 W. Four hot-swappable fans (3+1 redundant) support forward airflow (port-side exhaust) or reversed airflow (port-side intake). Fan modules are NXA-FAN-30CFM-F and NXA-FAN-30CFM-B; power supplies are N2200-PAC-400W, N2200-PAC-400W-B, N2200-PDC-400W and N3K-PDC-350W-B.

The chassis is 1.72 x 17.3 x 18.38 in. (4.36 x 43.9 x 46.7 cm), weighs 17.4 lb (7.9 kg) and operates from 0 to 40 °C (32 to 104 °F). The Layer 3 base license is N3548-BAS1K9, and the upgrade for ports 25 to 48 is N3548-24P-UPG=. The N3K-C3524P-XL Nexus 3524-XL switch has the same ports, power and dimensions with 16 GB of memory. The N3K-C3548P-XL Nexus 3548-XL switch is the 48-port model, and more switches are in Cisco switches.