The Cisco UCS 2204 Fabric Extender is second-generation hardware and provides 10 Gig Ethernet/FCoE uplinks to the Fabric Interconnect 6200/6300 series. It includes 4x10 Gig network interfaces and 32x10 Gig backend ports to blade servers.

The specifications of the 2204XP are as follows:

• 4x10 Gbps fabric ports for connecting to the Fabric Interconnect
• 16x10 Gbps server-facing ports with FCoE
• 40 Gbps throughput