The Cisco Nexus® 6001 Switch is part of a robust fabric that can scale significantly to meet data center growth, delivering architectural flexibility that enables any data center to be a more agile, cost-effective, and efficient environment. The Cisco Nexus 6001 Switch is an important component of the Cisco® Unified Data Center architecture, complementing existing Cisco Nexus switches. The Cisco Nexus 6001 is an energy-efficient switch that offers high port density in one rack unit (1RU), supports 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), provides integrated Layer 2 and 3 features at wire speed, and offers low latency of approximately 1 microsecond for any packet size. With a choice of front-to-back (port-side exhaust) and back-to-front (port-side intake) airflow options, the switch is designed for a broad range of traditional data center and large-scale virtualized cloud deployments.