Cisco N3K-C3064TQ-10GT Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

• Suffix breakdown definition:
  • TQ= 48 10GBASE-T twisted-pair copper downlinks + 4 universal 40G QSFP+ uplink slots
  • 10GT= Full 48-port 10GBASE-T enabled base bare chassis variant; contrasted with limited-port N3K-C3064TQ-32T (only 32 active 10G-T ports by default)
• Core advantages: Cost-effective reuse of existing Cat6a copper cabling, 1.28 Tbps non-blocking switching capacity, native DCB lossless FCoE support for unified LAN/SAN, interoperability with Nexus 2000/2300 FEX family, POAP zero-touch provisioning and single-pane management via Cisco DCNM alongside the complete Nexus fabric portfolio.

2. Part Number Suffix Breakdown & Cross-Model Comparison

Full PN Breakdown

1. N3K: Cisco Nexus 3000 Series low-latency data center Layer 2/3 switch family
2. C3064TQ-10GT: 1RU full-density 10G copper leaf switch bare chassis
   • 3064: High-density 64 total port aggregate platform
   • TQ= 48 × 10GBASE-T RJ45 copper downlinks + four universal 40G QSFP+ fabric uplink ports
   • 10GT: Full 48-port 10GBASE-T license enabled bare chassis; no pre-installed power, fan or optical transceivers
3. Airflow flexibility: Separate forward (port-side exhaust) and reverse (port-side intake) power supply and fan tray FRUs are available to match standardized hot/cold aisle rack cooling layouts; mismatched airflow modules trigger thermal protection shutdown.

Hardware Comparison Table

Factory Bare Chassis Included Hardware

1. 1RU standard 19-inch horizontal rack-mount passive switch chassis
2. Rear panel port bank:
   • 48 × auto-sensing 10/100/1000/10000BASE-T RJ45 copper downlink ports for rack virtualization servers, storage appliances
   • 4 × 40G QSFP+ uplink ports for parent fabric interconnection, compatible with SR4/LR4/ER4/BiDi optics, Twinax/AOC DAC and 40G-to-4×10G FET-10G breakout splitter modules
3. Front integrated out-of-band management subsystem:
   • RJ45 hybrid RS232 serial console port
   • Dedicated 10/100/1000BASE-T out-of-band MGMT Ethernet port
   • USB Type-A flash storage port for offline firmware upload, config backup and POAP provisioning files
4. Full front-panel LED status array: Global system health, PSU fault alarm, fan tray fault, per-port link/activity dual-color LEDs, blue UID locator beacon for rack asset identification
5. Standard 19-inch rack mounting rails, front cable management brackets, hardware installation guide and global safety regulatory compliance documentation
6. No power supplies, fan trays or transceivers pre-installed (all FRUs sold separately as spare parts)

Items Not Included (Must Be Ordered Separately)

1. Hot-swappable AC/DC redundant power supplies (500W rating, forward or reverse airflow options; dual PSUs recommended for 1+1 power redundancy)
2. Single hot-swappable fan tray with dual redundant internal fans; airflow direction must fully match installed power supply modules
3. 40G QSFP+ transceivers for uplinks: SR4, LR4, ER4, BiDi optics, 40G-to-4×10G breakout FET-10G splitter modules, Twinax/AOC cables
4. Optional accessories: Serial console rollover cable, out-of-band management patch cords, lockable front door, air filter panel

Supported Fabric & Parent Compatibility

• Full unified fabric feature set (Ethernet + Lossless FCoE): Cisco Nexus 5500 / 5600 / 6000 Series (minimum NX-OS 7.3(0)N1(1) firmware release)
• Layer 2/Layer3 Ethernet only: Nexus 7000 / 7700 / 9000 Series
• Compatible with Nexus 2000/2300 blade & rack FEX devices for end-to-end LAN/SAN convergence
• Minimum NX-OS version: 6.0(2)U6(1) for complete feature activation

3. Hardware Port & Slot Layout

Rear Panel 48 10GBASE-T Downlink & 4 QSFP+ Uplink Ports

1. 48 × Auto-Sensing 1/10GBASE-T RJ45 Copper Host Ports
   IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T compliant twisted-pair interfaces supporting auto-negotiation of 100M/1G/10G speeds, auto MDI-X cable correction, maximum 30-meter reach over Cat6a copper cabling. Interfaces support jumbo frames up to 9216 MTU and IEEE DCB PFC/ETS lossless FCoE transport for unified IP SAN storage workloads. All Layer 2 switching, ACL and QoS policies are enforced locally on the switch hardware.
2. 4 × 40G QSFP+ Universal Fabric Uplink Ports
   Two configurable operation modes for leaf-spine inter-switch connections:

• Native 40GE mode: Direct high-bandwidth 40G inter-switch fabric uplinks
• Breakout mode: With FET-10G split transceivers, each QSFP+ expands to four independent 10GE channels to multiply uplink port density and reduce optical hardware costs
  All four uplinks can be bundled into LACP port-channels to support vPC dual-active high-availability fabric topologies, eliminating STP blocked links and maximizing uplink bandwidth utilization.

Front Panel Redundant FRU Slots & Management Interfaces

1. Dual hot-swappable AC/DC power supply bays (supports 1+1 redundant power inputs for non-disruptive live PSU replacement without switch reboot)
2. Single hot-swappable fan tray slot containing dual redundant internal fans; airflow direction determined by matching fan/PSU FRU selection (forward = port exhaust, reverse = port intake)
3. Dedicated out-of-band management block: Serial console, MGMT Ethernet port and USB flash port for offline configuration and firmware management independent of data plane traffic.

Front Panel LED Status Array

• Global health LED: Green = normal operation, Amber = critical hardware fault
• Separate fault indicator LEDs for each power supply and fan tray assembly
• Per-port dual-color link/activity LEDs for all 48 RJ45 downlinks and 4 QSFP+ uplink ports
• Blue UID beacon LED remotely activated via CLI to locate the switch rack unit during maintenance.

4. Hardware Performance Specifications

1. Total downlink bandwidth: 48 × 10G wire-speed ports, aggregate 480 Gbps full-duplex host bandwidth
2. Total uplink bandwidth: 4 × 40G full-duplex QSFP+ ports, aggregate 160 Gbps upstream fabric bandwidth
3. Fixed oversubscription ratio: 2:1 (480G host bandwidth / 160G uplink bandwidth)
4. Total non-blocking switching fabric capacity: 1.28 Tbps full-duplex
5. Wire-speed forwarding throughput: 950 Mpps at minimum 64-byte Ethernet frames (full line-rate L2/L3 across all ports)
6. Latency: Ultra-low deterministic microsecond-level store-and-forward forwarding latency, optimized for HFT low-delay financial workloads
7. MAC address table capacity: 128,000 MAC entry storage
8. VLAN scaling: Up to 4094 standard IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLANs
9. Jumbo frame MTU: Configurable up to 9216 bytes for storage replication and big-data workloads
10. Spanning tree scale: 64 MSTP instances, 512 RSTP instances
11. Port-channel scaling: Max 52 EtherChannels, up to 16 physical ports per LACP port-channel / vPC trunk
12. Zero-touch POAP provisioning: Automatic firmware sync and configuration download via DHCP on first boot
13. Hardware lossless DCB & traffic offload features (NX-OS controlled):
    • IEEE 802.1Qbb PFC and 802.1Qaz ETS lossless transport for FCoE unified LAN/SAN convergence
    • vPC, FEX vPC and Enhanced vPC (EvPC) redundant Layer 2 multipathing
    • Four-tier hardware QoS priority queues per port with WRR/DRR scheduling
    • PVLAN private VLAN isolation, UDLD link monitoring, broadcast/multicast storm control
    • IEEE 1588 PTP boundary clock for precise time synchronization in financial co-location environments
    • Expanded buffer monitoring counters to eliminate FCoE packet loss under storage traffic bursts

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Form Factor: 1 RU (43.7 mm height) standard 19-inch rack mount
• Dimensions (H × W × D): 43.7 mm × 439.4 mm × 505 mm (1.72 × 17.3 × 19.7 inches)
• Bare chassis weight (no PSUs, fans, transceivers): ~7.0 kg (15.4 lbs)
• Fully loaded maximum weight (dual PSUs + fan tray + full uplink transceivers): ~9.8 kg (21.6 lbs)
• Operating temperature range: 0°C ~ 40°C (32°F ~ 104°F); certified altitude up to 3,000 meters
• Storage temperature range: -40°C ~ 70°C (-40°F ~ 158°F)
• Operating relative humidity: 10%–85% non-condensing; storage humidity 5%–95% non-condensing
• Compliance Certifications: FCC Class A, UL 60950-1, CE, VCCI Class A, NEBS Level 3, GR63 seismic compliance, RoHS 6 validated

AC Power Supply FRU Specifications (Sold Separately)

• AC PSU input: 100–240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, typical efficiency 89–91%
• DC PSU input: -40 to -72 VDC negative DC telecom power
• Typical full system power draw: 300W peak with all 48 copper ports active (higher power consumption than SFP+ fiber variants due to 10GBASE-T PHY power draw)
• Hot-swappable OIR replacement without full switch reboot

5. NX-OS Software Feature Set (Managed via CLI / Cisco DCNM)

Layer 2 Core Data Center Features

• IEEE 802.1Q trunking, PVLAN private VLAN isolation, transparent VTP mode
• MSTP/RSTP spanning tree with BPDU guard, root guard and UDLD standard & aggressive mode
• Static/dynamic LACP EtherChannels, vPC dual-active high availability to eliminate STP blocked links
• DHCP snooping, dynamic ARP inspection, port security MAC locking, broadcast storm control
• DCB PFC/ETS lossless Ethernet for FCoE unified storage convergence
• IEEE 1588 PTP precision time synchronization for latency-sensitive financial workloads

Layer 3 Routing Features (Requires N3K-BAS1K9 Base License)

• Unicast routing: Static routes, OSPFv2, EIGRP, RIPv2, BGP-4, 32-way ECMP multi-path load balancing
• Multicast routing: IGMPv2/v3, PIM-SM, MSDP for video streaming and storage replication workloads
• First-hop redundancy protocols: HSRP, VRRP for gateway failover
• Hardware IP ACLs, route redistribution, prefix lists, route-map traffic segmentation policies
• Maximum routing table capacity: 16,000 IPv4 prefix entries, 8,000 multicast routes

Security, Monitoring & Automation Tools

• AAA authentication (TACACS+/RADIUS/Local), SSHv2 encrypted management
• SNMP v1/v2c/v3, remote syslog logging, RMON traffic statistics collection
• Cisco DCNM single-pane graphical fabric monitoring, automated provisioning and REST API integration
• GOLD online non-disruptive hardware diagnostics for continuous switch health monitoring
• Bulk fleet-wide firmware upgrade via single parent switch CLI command for uniform fabric rollouts
• Real-time streaming telemetry for port latency, buffer utilization and error counter visibility

6. Typical Deployment Scenarios for N3K-C3064TQ-10GE Bare Chassis

1. Enterprise legacy copper data center 10G migration ToR switch: 48-port 10GBASE-T RJ45 design reuses existing Cat6a copper cabling infrastructure for 1G server rack upgrades to 10G virtualization, with four flexible 40G fiber uplinks to upstream core aggregation switches and mild 2:1 oversubscription balanced for general enterprise IT workloads.
2. Mid-market IP SAN & virtualization server rack aggregation: DCB lossless FCoE support consolidates LAN and storage traffic on a single copper ToR switch, eliminating separate SAN access switches for small unified fabric deployments; bare chassis allows facility teams to select airflow-matched power/fan FRUs aligned with rack hot/cold aisle standards.
3. Cost-optimized cloud tenant rack access: High-density copper downlinks serve general-purpose virtualization tenants, with VLAN segmentation to isolate tenant traffic; breakout 4×10G uplink mode reduces optic costs for large uniform copper rack fleets.
4. HPC and big-data cluster copper rack aggregation: Stable low-latency forwarding and large shared buffer architecture absorb bursty parallel compute cluster east-west traffic, while standardized bare chassis inventory simplifies spare part management for mass data center rollouts.
5. Small-scale standardized cold/hot aisle data center uniform fabric expansion: Dual airflow FRU compatibility enables flexible rack cooling design, separating chassis and cooling module procurement to avoid thermal fault incidents caused by mismatched power/fan hardware during on-site replacement.

7. Standard Package Contents of N3K-C3064TQ-10GT Bare Chassis SKU

Separately Mandatory Components (Not Included in Base Chassis Bundle)

1. One or two hot-swappable AC/DC power supplies (forward or reverse airflow variant selected to match fan trays; dual PSUs recommended for 1+1 power redundancy)
2. One matching airflow hot-swappable fan tray (required for system cooling; mismatched airflow modules trigger thermal protection shutdown)
3. 40G QSFP+ transceivers, BiDi optics and 40G-to-4×10G breakout splitter cables for four fabric uplink QSFP+ ports

• Optional feature software licenses: N3K-BAS1K9 base license required to unlock full Layer 3 routing capabilities; Layer 2 switching functions enabled by default without license
• Auxiliary accessories: RJ45 serial console rollover cable, out-of-band management Ethernet patch cords, lockable front door, air filter panel

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