The Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series Fabric Extenders comprise a category of data center products designed to simplify
data center access architecture and operations. The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series uses the Cisco® Fabric Extender
architecture to provide a highly scalable unified server-access platform across a range of 100 Megabit Ethernet,
Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, unified fabric, copper and fiber connectivity, rack, and blade server
environments. The platform is ideal to support today’s traditional Gigabit Ethernet while allowing transparent
migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtual machine-aware unified fabric technologies.
The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders behave as remote line cards for a parent Cisco Nexus switch.
The fabric extenders are essentially extensions of the parent Cisco Nexus switch fabric, with the fabric extenders
and the parent Cisco Nexus switch together forming a distributed modular system. This architecture enables
physical topologies with the flexibility and benefits of both top-of-rack (ToR) and end-of-row (EoR) deployments