The Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ Fabric Extender helps to meet demanding server requirements without having to retrofit existing rack-space designs. It offers 48 host interfaces of 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and 6 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP fabric interfaces, with fabric speed up to 240 Gbps in each direction (480-Gbps full duplex). The device has a deep 32-MB shared buffer that helps increase performance, and it supports FCoE and Data Center Bridging (DCB) network technologies.
