N3K-C3524P-10GX Specification

● 24 fixed SFP+ ports (1 or 10 Gbps); expandable to 48 ports

● Dual redundant hot-swappable power supplies

● Four individual redundant hot-swappable fans

● One 1-PPS timing port, with the RF1.0/2.3 QuickConnect connector type*

● One 10/100/1000-Mbps management port

● One RS-232 serial console port

● Two USB ports

● Locator LED

● Locator LED button

● 480-Gbps switching capacity

● Forwarding rate of 360 mpps

● Line-rate traffic throughput (both Layer 2 and 3) on all ports

● Configurable MTUs of up to 9216 bytes (jumbo frames)

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP): 512

Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol: 64

2 GB (3524P and 3548P models)

4 GB (3524X and 3548X models)

● AC (forward and reversed airflow)

● DC (forward and reversed airflow)

Forward and reversed airflow schemes

● Forward airflow:Port-side exhaust (air enters through fan tray and power supplies and exits through ports)

● Reversed airflow: Port-side intake (air enters through ports and exits through fan tray and power supplies)

Four individual, hot-swappable fans (3+1 redundant)

● 10 to 85% noncondensing

● Up to 5 days at maximum (85%) humidity

● Recommend ASHRAE data center environment

● Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks

● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

● Support for up to 4096 VLANs

● Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)

● MSTP (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances

● Spanning Tree PortFast

● Spanning Tree Root Guard

● Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance

● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 24 ports per EtherChannel)

● LACP: IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.1ax

● Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information

● Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)

● Storm control (multicast and broadcast)

● Link-level flow control (IEEE 802.3x)

● vPC

● Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on interfaces, switch virtual interfaces (SVIs), PortChannels, and subinterfaces (total: 1024)

● 24-way Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)

● 4096 ACL entries

● Routing protocols: Static, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP

● HSRP and VRRP

● ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACLs

● VRF: VRF-Lite (IP VPN), VRF-aware unicast (BGP, OSPF, and RIP), and VRF‑aware multicast

● VRF route leaking

● Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)

● Multicast: PIMv2, PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), SSM, and BiDir

● Bootstrap router (BSR), Auto-RP, and Static RP

● MSDP and Anycast RP

● Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Versions 2 and 3

● Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet

● Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs include IPv4, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), TCP, and User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

● VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

● Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

● Named ACLs

● ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)

● Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay

● Control Plane Policing (CoPP)

Cisco Nexus Data Broker

● Topology support for tap and SPAN aggregation

● Traffic load balancing to multiple monitoring tools

● Time stamping using PTP

● Packet truncation

● Traffic filtering based on Layer 1 through Layer 4 header information

● Traffic replication and forwarding to multiple monitoring tools

● Robust RBAC

● Northbound Representational State Transfer (REST) API for all programmability support

● Power On Auto Provisioning (POAP)

● Python scripting

● 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

● Locator and beacon LEDs

● Configuration rollback

● SSHv2

● Telnet

● AAA

● AAA with RBAC

● RADIUS

● TACACS+

● Syslog

● Embedded packet analyzer

● SNMP v1, v2, and v3

● 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 Versions 2 and 3

● Ingress and egress packet counters per interface

● Network Time Protocol (NTP)

● Cisco OHMS

● Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests

● Cisco Call Home

● Cisco DCNM

● Active buffer monitoring

● PTP (IEEE 1588) boundary clock

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

Ethernet MIBs

● CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB

Configuration MIBs

● ENTITY-MIB

● IF-MIB

● CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB

● CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

● CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

● CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB

● CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB

● CISCO-IP-IF-MIB

● CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB

● CISCO-NTP-MIB

● CISCO-IMAGE-MIB

● CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB

Monitoring MIBs

● NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB

● CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB

● CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

● RMON-MIB

● CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB

● CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB

Security MIBs

● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB

● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB

● CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB

● CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB

● CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB

Miscellaneous MIBs

● CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB

● CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB

● CISCO-CDP-MIB

● CISCO-RF-MIB

Layer 3 and Routing MIBs

● UDP-MIB

● TCP-MIB

● OSPF-MIB

● OSPF-TRAP-MIB

● BGP4-MIB

● CISCO-HSRP-MIB

● PIM-MIB

● IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.1p: CoS Prioritization

● IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN Tagging

● IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN Instances of Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.1w: Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol

● IEEE 802.3z: Gigabit Ethernet

● IEEE 802.3ad: Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

● IEEE 802.1ax: Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

● IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

● IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet

● IEEE 802.1ab: LLDP

BGP

● RFC 1997: BGP CommunitiesAttribute

● RFC 2385: Protection of BGP Sessions with the TCP MD5 Signature Option

● RFC 2439: BGP Route Flap Damping

● RFC 2519: A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation

● RFC 2545: Use of BGPv4 Multiprotocol Extensions

● RFC 2858: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGPv4

● RFC 3065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP

● RFC 3392: Capabilities Advertisement with BGPv4

● RFC 4271: BGPv4

● RFC 4273: BGPv4 MIB: Definitions of Managed Objects for BGPv4

● RFC 4456: BGP Route Reflection

● RFC 4486: Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message

● RFC 4724: Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP

● RFC 4893: BGP Support for Four-Octet AS Number Space

OSPF

● RFC 2328: OSPFVersion 2

● 8431RFC 3101: OSPF Not-So-Stubby-Area (NSSA) Option

● RFC 3137: OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

● RFC 3509: Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border Routers

● RFC 3623: Graceful OSPF Restart

● RFC 4750: OSPF Version 2 MIB

RIP

● RFC1724: RIPv2 MIB Extension

● RFC 2082: RIPv2 MD5 Authentication

● RFC 2453: RIP Version 2

● IP Services

● RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

● RFC 783: Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

● RFC 791: IP

● RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

● RFC 793: TCP

● RFC 826: ARP

● RFC 854: Telnet

● RFC 959: FTP

● RFC 1027: Proxy ARP

● RFC 1305: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3

● RFC 1519: Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)

● RFC 1542: BootP Relay

● RFC 1591: Domain Name System (DNS) Client

● RFC 1812: IPv4 Routers

● RFC 2131: DHCP Helper

● RFC 2338: VRRP

IP Multicast

● RFC 2236: InternetGroup Management Protocol, version 2

● RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3

● RFC 3446: Anycast Rendezvous Point Mechanism Using PIM and MSDP

● RFC 3569: An Overview of SSM

● RFC 3618: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

● RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

● RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP

● RFC 4610: Anycast-RP using PIM

● RFC 5015: PIM BiDir

● RFC 5132: IP Multicast MIB