The Cisco Nexus 7000 10-Slot Fabric Module for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series 10-Slot chassis is a separate fabric module that provides parallel fabric channels to each I/O and supervisor module slot. Up to five simultaneously active fabric modules work together delivering up to 230 Gbps per slot. Through the parallel forwarding architecture, a system capacity of over 4.1 Tbps is achieved with these first-generation modules. The fabric module provides the central switching element for the fully distributed forwarding on the I/O modules.