The Cisco UCS 2304 Fabric Extender is third-generation hardware and provides native 40 Gig Ethernet/FCoE uplinks to the Fabric Interconnect 6300 series. It includes 4x40 Gig Network Interfaces (NIFs) and 32x10 Gig backend ports to blade servers.

The specifications of the 2304XP are as follows:

• 4x40 Gbps fabric ports for connecting to the Fabric Interconnect
• 32x10 Gbps server-facing ports with FCoE
• 160 Gbps throughput