CISCO N9K-C93180YC-EX – Nexus 9300 with 48p 10/25G SFP+ and 6p 100G QSFP28

Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX. Switch type: Managed, Switch layer: L2/L3. Switching optical modules type: 100 Gigabit Ethernet. USB 2.0 ports quantity: 1, Console port: RS-232. MAC address table: 256000 entries, Switching capacity: 1800 Gbit/s. Rack mounting, Form factor: 1UThe Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch has 48 1/10/25G-Gbps Small Form Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports and 6 40/100-Gbps Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 3.6 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor.
Architectural Flexibility
– Includes top-of-rack, fabric extender aggregation, or middle-of-row fiber-based server access connectivity for traditional and leaf-spine architectures
– Includes leaf node support for Cisco ACI architecture
– Increase scale and simplify management through Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender support

Feature-Rich
– Enhanced Cisco NX-OS Software is designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability
– ACI-ready infrastructure helps users take advantage of automated policy-based systems management
– Virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing provides network services
– Rich traffic flow telemetry with line-rate data collection
– Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitoring traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns

Real-Time Visibility and Telemetry
– Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform support with built-in hardware sensors for rich traffic flow telemetry and line-rate data collection
– Cisco Nexus Data Broker support for network traffic monitoring and analysis
– Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitor traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns
Highly Available and Efficient Design
– High-performance, non-blocking architecture
– Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration
– Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays
Simplified Operations
– Preboot execution environment (PXE) and Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation
– Automate and configure switches with DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
– An intelligent API offers switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure
– Python scripting gives programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI)
– Includes hot and cold patching, and online diagnostics