The 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