Product overview
Based on Cisco Cloud Scale technology, the Cisco Nexus® 9300-EX and 9300-FX platforms are the next generation of fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The new platforms support cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and cloud services with wire-rate security and telemetry. The platforms are built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance and meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers and growing enterprises.
Cisco Nexus 9300-EX and 9300-FX platform switches offer a variety of interface options to transparently migrate existing data centers from 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds to 25 Gbps at the server, and from 10- and 40-Gbps speeds to 50 and 100 Gbps at the aggregation layer. The platforms provide investment protection for customers, delivering large buffers, highly flexible Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability, and performance to meet the changing needs of virtualized data centers and automated cloud environments.
The platform hardware is capable of collecting comprehensive Cisco Tetration Analytics™ telemetry information at line rate across all the ports without adding any latency to the packets or negatively affecting switch performance. This telemetry information is exported every 100 milliseconds by default directly from the switch’s Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). This information consists of three types of data:
● Flow information: This information contains information about endpoints, protocols, ports, when the flow started, how long the flow was active, etc.
● Interpacket variation: This information captures any interpacket variations within the flow. Examples include variation in Time To Live (TTL), IP and TCP flags, payload length, etc.
● Context details: Context information is derived outside the packet header, including variation in buffer utilization, packet drops within a flow, association with tunnel endpoints, etc.
The Cisco Tetration Analytics platform consumes this telemetry data, and by using unsupervised machine learning and behavior analysis it can provide outstanding pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. By using algorithmic approaches, the Cisco Tetration Analytics platform provides a deep application insights and interactions, enabling dramatically simplified operations, a zero-trust model, and migration of applications to any programmable infrastructure. To learn more, go to https://www.cisco.com/go/tetration.
Cisco provides two modes of operation for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Organizations can use Cisco NX OS Software to deploy the switches in standard Cisco Nexus switch environments (NX-OS mode). Organizations also can use a hardware infrastructure that is ready to support the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) platform to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems-management approach (ACI mode).
Switch models
Table 1 summarizes the Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switch models.
Table 1. Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switches
Model
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Description
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Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch
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48 x 1/10/25-Gbps fiber ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 28 (QSFP28) ports
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Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX Switch
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48 x 100M/1/10GBASE-T ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX Switch
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Up to 32 x 40/50-Gbps QSFP+ ports OR 18 x 100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch (Figure 1) is a 1-Rack-Unit (1RU) switch with latency of less than 1 microsecond that supports 3.6 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth and over 2.6 billion packets per second (bpps). The 48 downlink ports on the 93180YC-EX can be configured to work as 1-, 10-, or 25-Gbps ports, offering deployment flexibility and investment protection. The uplink can support up to six 40- and 100-Gbps ports, or a combination of 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, offering flexible migration options. The switch has FC-FEC enabled for 25Gbps, and supports upto 3m in DAC connectivity. Please check Cisco Optics Matrix for the most updated support.
Figure 1. Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch
The Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX Switch (Figure 2) is a 1RU switch that supports 2.16 Tbps of bandwidth and over 1.5 bpps. The 48 10GBASE-T downlink ports on the 93108TC-EX can be configured to work as 100-Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 10-Gbps ports. The uplink can support up to six 40- and 100-Gbps ports, or a combination of 1-, 10-, 25-, 40,
50-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, offering flexible migration options.
Figure 2. Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX Switch
The Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX Switch is the industry’s first 50-Gbps-capable 1RU switch that supports 3.6 Tbps of bandwidth and over 2.6 bpps across up to 32 fixed 40- and 50-Gbps QSFP+ ports or up to 18 fixed 100-Gbps ports (Figure 3). The switch can support up to 72 10-Gbps ports using breakout cables. A variety of flexible port configurations are supported using templates.
Figure 3. Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX Switch
Table 2 summarizes the Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switch models.
Table 2. Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switches
Model
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Description
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Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Switch
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48 x 1/10/25-Gbps fiber ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX Switch
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48 x 100M/1/10GBASE-T ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP
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48 x 100M/1G BASE-T ports, 4 x 10/25-Gbps SFP28 ports and 2 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
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36 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2
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48 x 1/10/25-Gbps fiber ports and 12 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Switch (Figure 4) is a 1RU switch with latency of less than 1 microsecond that supports 3.6 Tbps of bandwidth and 1.4 bpps. The 48 downlink ports on the 93180YC-FX can be configured to work as 1-, 10-, or 25-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE ports or as 16-, 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports[1], creating a point of convergence for primary storage, compute servers, and back-end storage resources at the top of rack.
The 6 uplinks ports can be configured as 40 and 100-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE ports, offering flexible migration options. All ports support wire-rate MACsec encryption[2]. The switch has FC-FEC and RS-FEC enabled for 25Gbps support.
Figure 4. Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Switch
The Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX Switch (Figure 5) is a 1RU switch that supports 2.16 Tbps of bandwidth and over 850 mpps. The 48 10GBASE-T downlink ports on the 93108TC-FX can be configured to work as 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, or 10-Gbps ports. The 6 uplinks ports can be configured as 40- and 100-Gbps ports, offering flexible migration options.
Figure 5. Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX Switch
The Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch (Figure 6) is a 1RU switch that supports 696 Gbps of bandwidth and over 250 mpps. The 48 1GBASE-T downlink ports on the 9348GC-FXP can be configured to work as 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps ports. The 4 ports of SFP28 can be configured as 1/10/25-Gbps and the 2 ports of QSFP28 can be configured as 40- and 100-Gbps ports. The Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP is ideal for big data customers that require a Gigabit Ethernet ToR switch with local switching.
Figure 6. Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch
The Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch (Figure 7) is a 1RU switch that supports 7.2 Tbps of bandwidth and over 2.8 bpps. The switch can be configured to work as 1/10/25/40/100-Gbps offering flexible options in a compact form factor. All ports support wire-rate MACsec encryption[3]. Breakout is supported on all ports. Please see feature table below for more information.
Figure 7. Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch
The Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2 Switch (Figure 8) supports 4.8 Tbps of bandwidth and over 1.8 bpps. The 48 ports of downlinks support 1/10/25-Gbps. The 12 uplinks ports can be configured as 40- and 100-Gbps ports, offering flexible migration options. Breakout is not supported at FCS, but is on the roadmap. The switch is ideal for a non-oversubscribed solution in a compact form factor. The switch has FC-FEC and RS-FEC enabled for 25Gbps support.
Figure 8. Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2 Switch
Features and benefits
The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX and 9300-FX platforms provide the following features and benefits:
● High performance, scalability, flexibility, and security
◦ The platform provides wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports.
◦ Robust hardware system specifications feature 4-core and 6-core CPUs, a minimum of 24 GB of system memory (64 GB on 93180YC-FX model), and respectively 64-GB and 128-GB Solid-State Disk (SSD) drives on EX and FX models.
◦ The 40-MB buffer supports highly scalable data centers and big data applications.
◦ Flexible forwarding tables support up to 1 million shared entries on EX models and up to 2 million shared entries on FX models.
◦ Flexible use of TCAM space allows for custom definition of Access Control List (ACL) templates.
◦ IEEE 802.1ae MAC Security (MACsec) support on all ports of 9300-FX models with speed greater than or equal to 10-Gbps, allows traffic encryption at the physical layer and provides secure server, border leaf, and leaf-to-spine connectivity.
● Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) *
◦ The platform offers native line-rate VXLAN routing.
◦ The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) control plane provides scalable multitenancy and host mobility (refer to VXLAN Network with MP-BGP EVPN Control Plane for more information).
● Hardware and software high availability
◦ Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) technology provides Layer 2 multipathing through the elimination of Spanning Tree Protocol. It also enables fully utilized bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models.
◦ The 64-way Equal-Cost MultiPath (ECMP) routing enables the use of Layer 3 fat-tree designs. This feature helps organizations prevent network bottlenecks, increase resiliency, and add capacity with little network disruption.
◦ Advanced reboot capabilities include hot and cold patching.
◦ The switches use hot-swappable Power-Supply Units (PSUs) and fans with N+1 redundancy.
● Purpose-built Cisco NX-OS Software operating system with comprehensive, proven innovations
◦ Open programmability supports built-in DevOps automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
◦ Cisco NX-API supports a common programmatic approach across Cisco Nexus switches.
◦ Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) enables touchless bootup and configuration of the switch, drastically reducing provisioning time.
◦ Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python scripting enable automation and remote operations in the data center.
◦ Advanced buffer monitoring reports real-time buffer use per port and per queue, which allows organizations to monitor traffic bursts and application traffic patterns.
◦ Complete Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol suites are supported, including BGP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).
◦ Segment routing allows the network to forward Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets and engineer traffic without Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Traffic Engineering (TE). It provides a control-plane alternative for increased network scalability and virtualization.
◦ Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE**) N-Port Virtualization (NPV) support enables the network administrator to control domain IDs and points of management on a Fibre Channel network as it scales. This feature enables LAN and SAN converged networks on a lossless, reliable Ethernet network.
◦ Network traffic monitoring with Cisco Nexus Data Broker builds simple, scalable, and cost-effective network Test Access Points (TAPs) and Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) aggregation for network traffic monitoring and analysis.
◦ Automate the time-consuming tasks of creating, installing, and maintaining appropriate fabricwide switch configurations with the new Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager.
* Software support for Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP is on the roadmap
** Software support is on the roadmap. Please visit the latest release notes for additional information
The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX, 9300-FX platforms offer industry-leading density and performance with flexible port configurations that can support existing copper and fiber cabling (Tables 3, 4 and 5).
Table 3. Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switch specifications
Feature
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Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX
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Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX
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Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX
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Ports
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48 x 10/25-Gbps and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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48 x 10GBASE-T and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Up to 32 x 40/50-Gbps QSFP+ ports OR 18 x 100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Downlink supported speeds
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1/10/25-Gbps speeds
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100-Mbps and 1/10-Gbps speeds
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40/50-Gbps speeds
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CPU
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4 cores
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4 cores
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4 cores
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System memory
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24 GB
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24 GB
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24 GB
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SSD drive
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64 GB
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64 GB
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64 GB
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System buffer
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40 MB
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40 MB
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40 MB
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Management ports
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP
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USB ports
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1
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1
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1
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RS-232 serial ports
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1
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1
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1
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Power supplies (up to 2)
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650W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC
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650W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC
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500W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC
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Typical power*(AC/DC)
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210W
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290W
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220W
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Maximum power*(AC/DC)
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470W
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499W
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500W
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Input voltage (AC)
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100 to 240V
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100 to 240V
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100 to 240V
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Input voltage (high-voltage AC [HVAC])
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200 to 277V
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200 to 277V
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200 to 277V
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Input voltage (DC)
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–48 to –60V
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–48 to –60V
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–48 to –60V
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Input voltage (high-voltage DC [HVDC])
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–240 to –380V
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–240 to –380V
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–240 to –380V
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Frequency (AC)
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50 to 60 Hz
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50 to 60 Hz
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50 to 60 Hz
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Fans
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4
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4
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4
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Airflow
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Physical dimensions (H x W x D)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 57.1 cm)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 57.1 cm)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 57.1 cm)
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Acoustics
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48.5 dBA at 40% fan speed, 64.9 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 77.8 dBA at 100% fan speed
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48.6 dBA at 40% fan speed, 65.2 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 76.5 dBA at 100% fan speed
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49.9 dBA at 50% fan speed, 66 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 73.9 dBA at 100% fan speed
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RoHS compliance
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MTBF
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390,330 hours
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366,130 hours
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323,440 hours
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* Typical and maximum power values are based on input drawn from the power circuit. The power supply value (for example, 650W AC power supply: NXA-PAC-650W-PI) is based on the output rating to the inside of the switch
Table 4. Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switch specifications
Feature
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Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
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Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX
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Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP
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Ports
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48 x 10/25-Gbps and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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48 x 10GBASE-T and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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48 x 1-GBASE-T ports, 4 x 10/25-Gbps SFP28 ports and 2 x 40/100 QSFP28 ports
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Downlink supported speeds
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1/10/25-Gbps Ethernet
8/16/32-Gbps Fibre Channel
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100-Mbps and 1/10-Gbps speeds
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100-Mbps and 1-Gbps speeds
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CPU
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6 cores
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4 cores
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4 cores
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System memory
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64 GB
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24 GB
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24 GB
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SSD drive
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128 GB
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128 GB
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128 GB
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System buffer
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40 MB
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40 MB
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40 MB
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Management ports
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1 RJ-45 port
L1 and L2 ports are unused
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP+
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP+
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USB ports
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1
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1
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1
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RS-232 serial ports
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1
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1
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1
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Power supplies (up to 2)
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500W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC
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500W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC
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350W AC, 440W DC
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Typical power (AC/DC)
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260W
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276W
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178W
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Maximum power (AC/DC)
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425W
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460W
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287W
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Input voltage (AC)
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100 to 240V
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100 to 240V
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100 to 240V
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Input voltage (high-voltage AC [HVAC])
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200 to 277V
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200 to 277V
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Input voltage (DC)
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–48 to –60V
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–48 to –60V
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-36V to -72V
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Input voltage (high-voltage DC [HVDC])
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–240 to –380V
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–240 to –380V
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Frequency (AC)
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50 to 60 Hz
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50 to 60 Hz
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50 to 60 Hz
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Fans
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4
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4
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3
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Airflow
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Port-side intake and exhaust
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Physical dimensions (H x W x D)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 57.1 cm)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 57.1 cm)
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1.72 x 17.3 x 19.7 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 49.9 cm)
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Acoustics
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57 dBA at 40% fan speed, 68.9 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 77.4 dBA at 100% fan speed
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64.2 dBA at 40% fan speed, 68.9 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 77.8 dBA at 100% fan speed
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67.5 dBA at 50% fan speed, 73.2 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 81.6 dBA at 100% fan speed
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RoHS compliance
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MTBF
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238,470 hours
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319,790 hours
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257,860 hours
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Table 5. Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 series switch specifications
Feature
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Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
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Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2
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Ports
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36 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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48 x 1/10/25-Gbps and 12 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports
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Supported speeds
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1/10/25/40/100-Gbps Ethernet
Breakout supported on all ports, 1-36:
100G, 40G native, 4x10/25G (10G w/QSA)
1G w/QSA except ports 1-6 and 33-36
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1/10/25-Gbps on downlinks
40/100-Gbps on uplinks
Breakout not supported at FCS, future support in roadmap
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CPU
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4 cores
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4 cores
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System memory
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24 GB
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16 GB
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SSD drive
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128 GB
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128 GB
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System buffer
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40 MB
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40 MB
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Management ports
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP+
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2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP+
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USB ports
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1
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1
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RS-232 serial ports
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1
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1
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Power supplies (up to 2)
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1100W AC, 1100W DC, 1100W HVAC/HVDC
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1100W AC
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Typical power (AC)
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367W
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298W
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Maximum power (AC)
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777W
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708W
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Input voltage (AC)
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100 to 240V
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100 to 240V
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Input voltage (high-voltage AC [HVAC])
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100 to 277V
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Input voltage (DC)
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–40 to –72V
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Input voltage (high-voltage DC [HVDC])
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–240 to –380V
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