Overview of the Cisco Nexus 3172 Switches
The Cisco Nexus 3172PQ (N3K-C3172PQ-10GE) is a 1 rack unit (RU), 10-Gigabit enhanced small form-factor
pluggable (SFP+)-based switch with 48 SFP+ ports and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) ports. Each SFP+ port can
operate in 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, or 10-Gbps mode, and each QSFP+ port can operate in native 40-Gbps or 4 x
10-Gbps mode.
The Cisco Nexus 3172PQ-XL (N3K-C3172PQ-XL) is a 1 rack unit (RU) switch with 8GB of RAM and
dual-core 2.5GHz x86 CPUs and 10-Gigabit enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) ports with 48
SFP+ ports and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) ports. Each SFP+ port can operate in 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, or 10-Gbps
mode, and each QSFP+ port can operate in native 40-Gbps or 4 x 10-Gbps mode.
The Cisco Nexus 3172TQ (N3K-C3172TQ-10GT) is a 1 rack unit (RU), 10GBASE-T switch with 48
10GBASE-T RJ-45 ports (each port can operate at 100-Mbps and 1-Gbps speeds) and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+)
ports (each QSFP+ port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet).
The Cisco Nexus 3172TQ-32T is the Cisco Nexus 3172TQ with 32 10GBASE-T ports (each port can operate
at 100-Mbps and 1-Gbps speeds) and 6 QSFP+ ports (each QSFP+ port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet
or 40 Gigabit Ethernet) enabled. The ports are enabled through software licensing. This switch comes with a
32-10GBASE-T port license preinstalled. To enable the remaining 16 10GBASE-T ports, the customer installs
the 16-port upgrade license.
The Cisco Nexus 3172TQ-XL (N3K-C3172TQ-XL) is a 1 rack unit (RU) switch with 8GB of RAM and
dual-core 2.5GHz x86 CPUs and 10GBASE-T with 48 10GBASE-T RJ-45 ports (each port can operate at
100-Mbps and 1-Gbps speeds) and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) ports (each QSFP+ port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit
Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet).
These switches each have 1 management port, 1 console port, and 1 USB port and support both port-side
exhaust and port-side intake airflow schemes. These switches require one AC or DC power supply for
operations, but can have a second power supply for redundancy.
The following figure shows the fan-side chassis features that you use when installing the chassis or replacing
its modules.
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