Cisco Systems N7K-M324FQ-25L= - Nexus 7000 M3-Series 24 Port 40GE

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M3-Series modules are powered by Cisco Nexus M3-Series switch-on-a-chip (SoC) application- specific integrated circuit (ASICs). The M3-Series SoC is an innovative ASIC designed by Cisco that provides a power-efficient flexible high-performance packet engine making it an excellent choice for building I/O modules that power the network infrastructure for public and private cloud environments. Each I/O module uses multiple M3-Series ASICs and each M3-Series ASIC powers a set of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports called port groups.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M3-Series I/O modules provide enhanced security and scalability capabilities such as these: