Cisco Nexus 7700 6-Slot Switch 220 Gbps/Slot Fabric Module - switch - managed - plug-in module

Switch fabric scalability is made possible through the support up to six concurrently active fabric modules for increased performance as your needs grow. All fabric modules connect to all module slots. The addition of each fabric module increases the bandwidth to all module slots up to the system limit of six fabric modules. The architecture supports lossless fabric failover, with the remaining fabric modules load balancing the bandwidth to all the I/O module slots, helping ensure graceful removal and insertion.

The combination of the Cisco Nexus 7700 fabric module, the supervisor and I/O modules supports the virtual output queue (VOQ) feature and credit-based arbitration to the crossbar switch to increase the performance and efficiency of the distributed forwarding system. VOQ and credit-based arbitration facilitate fair sharing of resources when a speed mismatch or contention for an uplink interface exists.