Cisco N77-C7710-B23S2E Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

2. Official Bundle Composition & Suffix Breakdown

Full Factory Pre-Integrated Hardware Included in N77-C7710-B23S2E

1. N77-C7710 base 21RU 10-slot passive midplane empty chassis (no pre-installed fans, power supplies, I/O line cards)
2. 1 × N77-SUP2E Supervisor 2E fabric/control module (preloaded into the half-slot supervisor Slot 5)
3. 3 × N77-C7710-FAB2 Fabric-2 crossbar switching modules (half fabric capacity for the 10-slot chassis)
4. Standard 19-inch rack mounting rails, front cable management brackets, factory hardware installation & safety documentation

Items NOT Included (Must Purchase Separately)

• Two independent hot-swappable fan trays (N77-C7710-FAN-S system fan + N77-C7710-FAN-F fabric fan)
• Up to four N77-AC-3KW-WS / N77-DC-3KW-WS 3000W AC/DC redundant power supplies
• F3/M3/F4 series I/O line/service modules for the eight empty I/O slots
• SFP+/QSFP+/QSFP28 optical transceivers for all port interfaces
• Add-on software feature licenses (C1-N7710 XL scale, IVR, OTV, FCIP, FICON, MPLS XL scale, DMM, IOA Acceleration)
• Optional accessories: Lockable front door, extended cable management kit, air filter kit

Suffix Meaning Decoding

• N77-C7710: Base 10-slot Nexus 7710 modular chassis identifier
• B2: Pre-installed 2-series Fabric modules (Fabric-2)
• 3: Quantity of factory pre-loaded fabric modules = three Fabric-2 cards
• S2E: Single pre-installed Supervisor 2E control module (no second redundant supervisor in this bundle)

3. Core Hardware Architecture & Key Differentiators vs Full Populated N77-C7710

Chassis Slot Layout (21RU 19-inch rack, fixed front-to-back cold aisle airflow only)

1. Front Slots 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10: Eight empty universal hot-swappable I/O line card slots (supports 10/40/100G F3/M3/F4 converged LAN/FCoE modules)
   • N77-F348XP-23: 48×10G SFP+
   • N77-F324FQ-25: 24×40G QSFP+
   • N77-F312CK-26: 12×100G QSFP28 max-density line card
   • N77-M348XP-23L: M3 multi-protocol service card with FCIP/iSCSI gateway, L4-L7 offload
2. Slot 5: Half-size supervisor slot with factory pre-installed N77-SUP2E (Slot 6 is empty, no second supervisor included for native dual control-plane HA)

Rear Redundant Subsystems (Partially Pre-populated)

1. Three N77-C7710-FAB2 Fabric-2 crossbar modules preloaded; three empty fabric bays remaining for full 6-fabric maximum capacity
2. Four empty hot-swappable power supply bays (3+1 N+1 redundant power design, PSUs sold separately)
3. Two empty fan tray bays (system fan tray + dedicated fabric cooling fan tray, must order separately)

Core Hardware Advantages

1. Pre-bundled chassis + single SUP2E + three Fabric-2 modules to reduce separate component ordering steps
2. Ultra-scalable eight I/O line card slots, supporting up to 192×100G ports after adding full I/O modules
3. Unified Nexus 7700 Gen3 module compatibility, all F3/M3/F4 I/O cards, Sup2/Sup2E interchangeable across all Nexus 7700 chassis
4. Complete converged LAN+SAN hardware offload: Lossless PFC/DCBX FCoE, FC-NVMe low-latency tunneling, full FICON zSystems storage integration without external gateways

High-Availability Limitations of This Bundle

• Only one supervisor pre-installed; full dual control-plane HA requires purchasing an extra N77-SUP2E to fill Slot 6
• Only three of six fabric modules preloaded, chassis fabric bandwidth limited to half capacity (21 Tbps full-duplex vs maximum 42 Tbps with six Fabric-3 modules)
• No factory pre-installed fan trays or power supplies; full power/cooling redundancy requires separate PSU/fan tray procurement
• Full OIR hot-swap maintenance supported for all FRUs (fabric modules, fan trays, power supplies, supervisor, I/O line card) with zero traffic interruption after all missing redundant hardware is deployed

4. Hardware Performance Specifications

Switching & Routing Capacity (3×Fab2 modules loaded)

1. Partial non-blocking fabric aggregate bandwidth: 21 Tbps full-duplex (half of full 42 Tbps six-fabric maximum)
2. Wire-speed forwarding rate: Up to 21000 Mpps Ethernet frame switching at full 100G line rate
3. Layer 2 MAC address table: 128,000 entries (XL software license required for extended scale)
4. Layer 3 route scale: IPv4 unicast 128,000 entries; IPv6 unicast 64,000 entries; multicast routes 32,000 entries
5. Maximum VDC virtual multi-tenant logical switch partitions: 8 independent isolated VDCs
6. Port-channel limit: 1024 logical trunk bundles, maximum 16 physical ports per vPC/ISL link
7. Native ASIC hardware offload suite:
   • Lossless FCoE stack: PFC priority flow control, DCBX, VNTag, FC-NVMe ultra-low-latency tunneling
   • OTV cross-data-center encapsulation, LISP endpoint mapping
   • FCIP tunnel compression, write acceleration, tape pipelining for long-distance DR backup replication
   • DMM non-disruptive data migration, IOA storage I/O acceleration, onboard streaming telemetry export

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 dual local console ports
• External USB flash port for NX-OS image/config backup and offline diagnostics
• Dedicated onboard NPU for real-time streaming LAN/SAN performance telemetry export

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Rack height: 21 RU (61.9 cm tall), standard 19-inch EIA horizontal rack mount
• Dimensions (H × W × D): 61.9 cm × 43.9 cm × 86.4 cm; extended depth 98.8cm with cable management kit installed
• Bundle weight (chassis + 1×SUP2E + three Fabric-2 modules, no fans/PSUs/I/O cards): ~90 kg (198 lbs)
• Fully loaded maximum weight (four AC PSUs + two fan trays + six fabric modules + dual supervisors + eight 48-port 100G I/O line cards): ~138 kg (304 lbs)
• Operating temperature range: 0°C ~ 40°C (32°F ~ 104°F); certified altitude up to 4000m
• Humidity: 8%–80% non-condensing operating; 5%–90% non-condensing storage
• Compliance certifications: FCC Class A, UL 60950-1, CE, VCCI Class A, NEBS Level 3, GR63 seismic Zone 4, RoHS, FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated

Airflow Specification

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 (8 independent VDCs)
• 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 mirroring for multi-session performance troubleshooting
• NPV/NPIV FCoE edge virtualization to reduce upstream MDS SAN fabric control-plane load
• Slow drain detection and buffer credit congestion isolation hardware feature to eliminate packet loss for lossless storage traffic
• POAP Power On Auto Provisioning zero-touch automatic switch deployment for mass rack rollouts

Multilayer Routing & Cross-Data Center Interconnect Features

• Dynamic IPv4/IPv6 routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
• VRF virtual routing and forwarding multi-tenant Layer 3 isolation
• Licensed IVR Inter-VSAN Routing for secure cross-storage-fabric data forwarding
• OTV Overlay Transport Virtualization: Layer 2 workload mobility for geographically separated disaster recovery data centers
• LISP Locator/ID Separation Protocol: Multi-pod workload mobility across distributed data center sites
• 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 optimized 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 granular multi-tier administrative access control, integrated with Cisco ISE identity services engine
• SSHv2 encrypted remote management, SNMPv3 secure monitoring, AES encrypted startup configurations, 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 Level 2 compliance for government, financial and regulated enterprise deployments
• 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 for N77-C7710-B23S2E Bundle

1. Medium virtualized multi-pod data center core aggregation (half-fabric capacity temporary deployment): Add three extra Fabric-2 modules later to unlock full 42 Tbps throughput
2. Medium enterprise campus edge converged LAN/SAN switch: Deploy second Supervisor 2E separately to build full dual control-plane HA, add fan trays and dual AC power supplies for complete redundancy
3. Small-to-medium service provider multi-tenant metro PoP edge gateway: VDC multi-tenant logical switch isolation separates independent enterprise customer LAN/SAN fabrics, empty I/O slots reserved for future port count expansion
4. Financial/mainframe zSystems converged storage core: Native FCoE + FICON compatibility enables long-distance FCIP tape backup replication, second supervisor and full six fabric modules added later for zero single-point failure architecture
5. Legacy Nexus 7000 fabric migration intermediate 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

7. Standard Package Contents of N77-C7710-B23S2E Factory Bundle

Separately Mandatory Components (Not Included in This Bundle)

• Two N77-C7710-FAN series hot-swappable multi-fan cooling trays (system fan tray + dedicated fabric fan tray)
• Dual / triple / quad N77-AC-3KW-WS 3000W AC hot-swappable redundant power supply units (DC variant N77-DC-3KW-WS for telecom deployments)
• Optional second N77-SUP2E supervisor control module (to achieve native dual control-plane HA)
• Additional three N77-C7710-FAB2 / FAB3 fabric modules to reach full six-fabric maximum chassis bandwidth
• Optional Nexus 7700 family pluggable I/O line/service modules (48-port 10/40/100G F3 switching module, N77-M3 multi-protocol FCIP/iSCSI L4-L7 service module, SSM storage encryption/replication module)
• SFP+/QSFP+/QSFP28 optical fiber transceivers for all Ethernet/FCoE port interfaces (backward compatible with legacy 1G SFP transceivers)
• Optional feature software licenses: C1-N7710 XL Scale, 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, locking front door, air filter kit

Short Commercial Catalog Summary