The Cisco Nexus 5000 series comprises a family of line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches for data center applications. With low latency, front-to-back cooling, and rear-facing ports, the Cisco Nexus 5000 series is designed for data centers transitioning to 10 Gigabit Ethernet as well as those ready to deploy a unified fabric that can handle their LAN, SAN, and server clusters, providing networking over a single link (or dual links for redundancy).