N9K-C93180YC-EX Is Cisco Nexus 9300 Series 48Port 100G Switch
The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series switches belongs to the fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 platform based on Cisco Cloud Scale technology. The platform support cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and cloud services. The platform is 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 series 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.
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 can also deploy the 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).
Ports |
48 x 10/25-Gbps and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 ports |
Downlink supported speeds |
1/10/25-Gbps speeds |
CPU |
4 cores |
System memory |
24 GB |
SSD drive |
64 GB |
System buffer |
40 MB |
Management ports |
2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP |
USB ports |
1 |
RS-232 serial ports |
1 |
Power supplies (up to 2) |
650W AC, 930W DC, or 1200W HVAC/HVDC |
Typical power (AC/DC) |
210W |
Maximum power (AC/DC) |
470W |
Input voltage (AC) |
100 to 240V |
Input voltage |
200 to 277V |
Input voltage (DC) |
–48 to –60V |
Input voltage |
–240 to –380V |
Frequency (AC) |
50 to 60 Hz |
Fans |
4 |
Airflow |
Port-side intake and exhaust |
Physical dimensions |
1.72 x 17.3 x 22.5 in. |
Acoustics |
48.5 dBA at 40% fan speed, 64.9 dBA at 70% fan speed, and 77.8 dBA at 100% fan speed |
RoHS compliance |
Yes |
MTBF |
390,330 hours |
Maximum number of Longest Prefix Match (LPM) routes |
896,000 |
Maximum number of IP host entries |
896,000 |
Maximum number of MAC address entries |
256,000 |
Maximum number of multicast routes |
32,000 |
Number of Interior Gateway Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping groups |
Shipping: 8,000 Maximum: 32,000 |
Maximum number of Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders per switch |
16 |
Maximum number of Access Control List (ACL) entries |
Per slice of the forwarding engine: 4000 ingress 2000 egress Total (2 forwarding slices): 8000 ingress 4000 egress |
Maximum number of VLANs |
3,967 |
Number of Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances |
Shipping: 1,000 Maximum: 16,000 |
Maximum number of ECMP paths |
64 |
Maximum number of port channels |
512 |
Maximum number of links in a port channel |
32 |
Number of active SPAN sessions |
4 |
Maximum number of VLAN’s in Rapid per-VLAN Spanning Tree (RPVST) instances |
3,967 |
Maximum number of Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) groups |
490 |
Number of Network Address Translation (NAT) entries |
1,023 |
Maximum number of Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) instances |
64 |
Flow-table size used for Cisco Tetration Analytics platform |
64,000 |
Operating temperature |
32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C) |
Nonoperating (storage) temperature |
–40 to 158°F (–40 to 70°C) |
Humidity |
5 to 95% (noncondensing) |
Altitude |
0 to 13,123 ft (0 to 4000m) |
Weight (without power supplies or fans) |
17.2 lb (7.8 kg) |
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Day zero automation through Power On Auto Provisioning, drastically reducing provisioning time.
Industry leading integrations for leading devops configuration management applications – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SALT. Extensive Native YANG and industry standard OpenConfig model support through RESTCONF/NETCONF.
Pervasive API’s for all switch CLI functions (JSON based RPC over HTTP/HTTPs).
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches N9K-C93180YC-EX support QSFP form factor modules for 40G (QSFP+), 100G (QSFP28), 400G (QSFP-DD), 800G (QSFP-DD800), and future higher speed ports. The choice of using the QSFP form factor for these port speeds provides backwards compatibility and seamless connectivity to legacy lower-speed QSFP ports, enabling a smooth transition to higher speed fabrics.
In addition to the QSFP port form factor, Cisco Nexus 9000 switches and ASICs support 56G and 112G SERDES for high-speed connections that improve performance and efficiency at lower cost and power.
QDD-400G-SR4.2, QSFP-100G-SR1.2, QDD-400G-DR4, QSFP28 100G-DR