The Cisco Nexus 7000 Fabric Module for the Cisco Nexus 7000 18-Slot Chassis is separate fabric module that provide parallel fabric channels to each I/O and supervisor module slot. Up to five simultaneously active fabric module work together delivering up to 230 Gbps per slot. Through the parallel forwarding architecture, a system capacity of more than 8 Tbps is achieved with the five fabric modules. The fabric module provides the central switching element for fully distributed forwarding on the I/O modules.