Cisco C1-N7702-S2E-AC Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

2. Official Bundle Composition & Suffix Explanation

Full Factory Included Hardware

1. C1-N7702 base 3RU 2-slot passive midplane empty chassis (integrated single hot-swappable multi-fan cooling tray pre-installed)
2. 1× N77-SUP2E Supervisor 2E fabric/control module (preloaded into the dedicated half-slot supervisor slot 2)
3. Two N77-AC-3KW-WS 3000W Platinum AC hot-swappable power supplies (1+1 redundant power configuration)
4. Standard 19-inch rack mounting rails, front cable management brackets, safety & hardware installation documentation

Items Not Included (Must Be Ordered Separately)

• Universal F3/M3 I/O line/service modules (only one I/O slot available on chassis)
• SFP+/QSFP+/QSFP28 optical transceivers for all port interfaces
• Add-on software feature licenses: IVR, OTV, FCIP, FICON, MPLS XL scale, DMM, IOA Acceleration
• Optional accessories: Lockable front door, extended cable management kit, air filter kit

Suffix Breakdown

• C1: Cisco ONE commercial channel SKU series
• N7702: 2-slot Nexus 7702 compact modular chassis base model
• S2E: Single pre-installed Supervisor 2E control module
• AC: Factory bundled with dual AC power supplies (DC variant: C1-N7702-S2E-DC)

3. Core Hardware Architecture & Key Differentiators

Chassis Slot Layout (3RU 19-inch rack, fixed front-to-back cold aisle airflow only)

1. Slot 1: Single full universal hot-swappable I/O line card slot (supports one I/O module at maximum):
   • N77-F348XP-23: 48×10G SFP+ high-density F3 series line card
   • N77-F324FQ-25: 24×40G QSFP+ F3 series line card
   • N77-F312CK-26: 12×100G QSFP28 F3 maximum-density line card (max 12×100G ports full chassis)
   • N77-M348XP-23L: M3 mixed-feature line card with L4-L7 service offload, FCIP/iSCSI multi-protocol gateway capability
   • SSM Storage Services Module: Inline tape/media encryption, asynchronous cross-fabric replication, SAN performance analytics
2. Slot 2: Half-size supervisor slot with factory pre-installed N77-SUP2E (no second native supervisor slot built into chassis; full HA requires pairing a second identical bundle as vPC peer switch)

Rear Redundant Subsystems (Pre-integrated in bundle)

1. Dual 3000W AC power supply bays with two PSUs preloaded for 1+1 N+1 power redundancy
2. Single integrated multi-fan variable-speed cooling tray (built into chassis, no separate fan SKU needed)
3. No external rear crossbar fabric modules — distributed fabric ASICs embedded inside supervisor and I/O line cards, simplifying maintenance and reducing spare inventory cost

Core Hardware Advantages vs larger Nexus 7706/7710 chassis

1. Ultra-compact 3RU rack footprint for small pod top-of-row core aggregation
2. Embedded distributed fabric design eliminates costly external crossbar modules
3. Pre-bundled single SUP2E + dual AC power to reduce separate component ordering workload
4. Unified Nexus 7700 Gen3 I/O module compatibility, fully interchangeable with all 7700 family chassis to cut spare inventory cost
5. Complete converged LAN+SAN hardware offload: Lossless PFC/DCBX FCoE, FC-NVMe low-latency tunneling, full FICON zSystems storage integration without external gateway appliances

High-Availability Design

• Power: Dual 3kW AC PSUs support OIR hot-swap replacement without full chassis power cycle
• Cooling: Single integrated multi-fan tray; single fan failure triggers SNMP alert, chassis remains operational for tray replacement
• Control plane: Single SUP2E active by default; full redundant HA deployment requires two C1-N7702-S2E-AC bundles to build vPC peer architecture, supporting stateful failover and non-disruptive ISSU firmware upgrades
• Fault isolation: VDC virtual multi-tenant logical switch partitioning + VSAN storage fabric segmentation to contain broadcast and storage fault leakage across logical domains
• NPV/NPIV FCoE edge mode offloads Fibre Channel host registration to upstream MDS SAN directors to reduce control-plane overhead
• Full OIR hot-swap maintenance for all FRUs (power supplies, fan tray, supervisor, I/O line card) with zero traffic interruption

4. Hardware Performance Specifications

1. Full non-blocking distributed fabric aggregate bandwidth: 2.4 Tbps full-duplex
2. Wire-speed forwarding rate: 2400 Mpps Ethernet frame switching at maximum 100G line rate
3. MAC address table capacity: 128,000 entries
4. IPv4 unicast route table: 128,000 entries; IPv6 unicast: 64,000 entries; multicast routes: 32,000 entries
5. Maximum VDC virtual logical switches: 4 independent multi-tenant partitions
6. Port-channel limit: 1024 logical trunks, max 16 ports per PortChannel bundle with dynamic load balancing
7. Native hardware ASIC offload feature set:
   • Lossless FCoE stack: PFC priority flow control, DCBX, VNTag, FC-NVMe low-latency tunneling
   • DMM non-disruptive data migration, IOA storage I/O acceleration
   • OTV cross-DC overlay encapsulation, LISP endpoint mapping, FCIP compression/tape pipelining

Supervisor 2E (N77-SUP2E) Built-in Specs

• Dual-core x86 enterprise CPU, 16GB DRAM, 16GB internal compact flash storage
• Dual 1G out-of-band management Ethernet ports, RS232 serial + mini USB local console
• External USB flash port for NX-OS image/config backup
• Dedicated streaming telemetry NPU for real-time LAN/SAN performance analytics export

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Rack height: 3 RU (13.08 cm tall), standard 19-inch horizontal rack mount
• Dimensions (H × W × D): 13.08 cm × 44.45 cm × 73.9 cm; extended depth 86.3cm with cable management guide
• Fully loaded bundle weight (chassis + 1×SUP2E + dual AC PSUs + integrated fan tray, no I/O line card): ~26 kg (57 lbs)
• Operating temperature range: 0°C ~ 40°C (32°F ~ 104°F); certified altitude up to 2000m
• Relative humidity: 10%–90% non-condensing operating
• Compliance certifications: FCC Class A, UL 60950-1, CE, VCCI Class A, NEBS Level 3, RoHS, FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated

5. Full NX-OS Feature Set Supported

Layer 2 Ethernet & Converged FCoE Storage Fabric

• VDC Virtual Device Context: Logical multi-tenant isolation to separate production/test/backup LAN/SAN workloads on a single physical chassis
• 4094 VLANs per VDC, PVLAN private VLAN anti-spoofing isolation
• Complete lossless FCoE protocol stack: VSAN virtual storage fabrics, hard WWN zoning, Auto-Zone automatic fabric provisioning, FC-NVMe low-latency forwarding
• MSTP multi-instance spanning tree loop prevention, vPC dual-active peer-link redundancy, SPAN/RSPAN remote traffic analytics
• NPV/NPIV FCoE edge virtualization to reduce MDS SAN fabric control-plane load
• Slow drain detection and buffer credit congestion isolation for lossless storage traffic
• POAP Power On Auto Provisioning zero-touch switch deployment for mass pod rack rollouts

Multilayer Routing & Cross-Data Center Interconnect Features

• OSPF / EIGRP / BGP IPv4/IPv6 dynamic routing protocols for LAN workloads
• VRF virtual routing and forwarding multi-tenant routing isolation
• Licensed IVR Inter-VSAN Routing feature for secure cross-VSAN storage data forwarding
• OTV Overlay Transport Virtualization: Layer 2 workload mobility for disaster recovery cross-DC deployments
• LISP Locator/ID Separation Protocol: Multi-pod workload mobility across geographically distributed data centers
• Full carrier-grade MPLS suite: LDP, VPLS, VPWS, EVPN-FC dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 multi-tenant transport
• FCIP tunnel hardware acceleration: Lossless compression, write acceleration, tape pipelining for long-distance off-site tape backup replication
• iSCSI multi-protocol gateway processing via M3 service line cards for IP-attached server consolidation

Advanced QoS & Traffic Prioritization

• Four hardware priority queues per Ethernet/FCoE port for tiered classification of storage I/O, virtual machine east-west traffic, management and backup streams
• Ingress frame policing and egress bandwidth shaping to throttle low-priority tape backup and replication traffic
• Pre-built QoS templates for production OLTP database workloads, all-flash NVMe storage, virtual server east-west traffic, tape backup archives, and disaster recovery replication
• Dedicated high-priority traffic queue for low-latency real-time unified communications and enterprise database workloads
• DCBX media optimization for converged FCoE LAN/SAN traffic prioritization

Enterprise & Service Provider Security Suite

• Port security: Static MAC locking to block unauthorized physical server/storage device attachment
• RBAC Role-Based Access Control granular multi-tier admin access control, integrated with Cisco ISE identity services engine
• SSHv2 encrypted remote management, SNMPv3 secure monitoring, AES encrypted startup configuration files, DH-CHAP FCoE inter-fabric link authentication
• Port lockdown, VDC / VSAN read-only access permissions, complete audit logging for all fabric configuration changes
• FIPS 140-2 validated security compliance for government and financial regulated environments
• Cisco TrustSec security group tagging for end-to-end policy segmentation across campus and data center domains
• IPv6 over Fibre Channel support for modern dual-stack management networks
• Secure Boot and anti-counterfeit hardware validation to prevent unauthorized firmware tampering

Monitoring & SAN/LAN Management Tools

• Cisco DCNM centralized graphical converged LAN/SAN fabric monitoring, provisioning and REST API automation
• Dual isolated out-of-band Ethernet management ports for offline device access during fabric-wide outages and analytics export
• External USB flash storage for offline NX-OS firmware image upgrades, running configuration backup archives and syslog export
• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) automatic Nexus/MDS fabric neighbor device discovery
• Real-time storage/LAN telemetry: Port throughput, latency, frame error counters, SFP+ optical transmit power diagnostics, onboard NPU streaming analytics export
• Event notification via email, syslog and SNMP traps for real-time fabric fault alerting
• GOLD Generic Online Diagnostics continuous hardware health validation without production traffic interruption
• Onboard Python interpreter + NX-API REST interfaces for custom data center automation scripts

6. Typical Deployment Scenarios

1. Small virtualized data center pod core switch: Compact 3RU rack form factor as pod top-of-row core aggregation, single 100G F3 line card provides 12×100G uplinks to leaf Nexus 2000 FEX extenders and small-scale all-flash NVMe FCoE storage arrays, VDC + VSAN segmentation isolates independent production/test/backup converged LAN/SAN logical fabrics.
2. Medium multi-building enterprise campus edge converged LAN/SAN switch: Interconnects remote building access switches via OTV cross-DC overlay tunnels, built-in FCIP hardware offload provides asynchronous disaster recovery replication between primary and DR data centers.
3. Small-to-medium service provider multi-tenant PoP edge gateway: VDC multi-tenant logical switch isolation separates independent enterprise customer LAN/SAN fabrics on a single physical bundle, unused I/O slot reserved for future port count expansion or M3 L4-L7 service line card upgrades.
4. Financial/mainframe zSystems storage core: Native FCoE + FICON compatibility enables long-distance FCIP tape backup replication, dual AC power redundancy paired with a second C1-N7702-S2E-AC peer switch for full site-wide HA fault tolerance.
5. Legacy Nexus 5000 FCoE fixed switch migration upgrade: Backward compatible with existing 10G SFP transceivers while unlocking 40G/100G high-density port expansion, VDC virtual multi-tenant partitioning and modern NX-OS OTV/LISP cross-data-center automation workflows.
6. Centralized small enterprise tape library backup fabric aggregation core: Dedicated backup fabric switch utilizing multi-port FCIP PortChannel trunks to primary production FCoE SAN fabrics for asynchronous off-site tape archive replication workloads, with unused I/O slot available for high-density host port expansion or SSM encryption/replication service module additions as enterprise storage compliance requirements expand.

7. Standard Package Contents of C1-N7702-S2E-AC Bundle

Separately Required Components (Not Included in Bundle)

• F3/M3 series I/O line/service modules for Slot 1
• SFP+/QSFP+/QSFP28 optical fiber transceivers for all Ethernet/FCoE port interfaces (backward compatible with legacy 1G SFP transceivers)
• Optional feature software licenses: IVR Inter-VSAN Routing, FCIP SAN Extension Enabler, Mainframe FCoE Enabler, OTV Data Center Interconnect, IOA I/O Acceleration, DMM Data Migration
• RS232 serial console rollover cable, mini USB console cable, fiber/copper patch cords, rack cable management accessories

Short Commercial Catalog Summary