Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches Data Sheet

Product overview

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications are being used increasingly in today’s data centers, and the Cisco Nexus^® 9000 Series Switches have the hardware and software capabilities to provide the right latency, congestion-management mechanisms, and telemetry to meet the requirements of those applications. The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches address the need for high-performance, power-efficient, compact switching in the networking infrastructure and are designed to support 100G fabrics for next-generation leaf and spine designs.

Large-cloud and data-center networking teams require a flexible, reliable solution that efficiently manages, troubleshoots, and analyzes their IT infrastructure. In addition, they need security, automation, visibility, analytics, and assurance. Coupled with tools such as Nexus Dashboard, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches are ideal platforms for building a high-performance AI/ML network fabric.

Based on the Cisco Silicon One E100 ASIC, the Cisco Nexus 9336C-SE1 is a new 36-port 100G switch. The platform supports cost-effective large-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and is capable of wire-rate encryption. 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.

Designed for the programmable network, the Cisco NX-OS operating system automates configuration and management for customers who want to take advantage of the DevOps operation model and tool sets. Cisco Nexus 9336C-SE1 supports Cisco NX-OS and will support VxLAN, L2/L3 (base features) and IPFM use-cases in the first release (10.6.1).

Cisco Nexus 9300 SE1 Switches Capabilities

Note: This datasheet describes hardware capabilities only. Please refer to Cisco Nexus 9336C-SE1 Readme document, NX-OS software release notes and appropriate feature documentation for more details on software support.

Table 1.        Cisco Nexus 9300 SE1 Switches Capabilities.

Switch model

Table 2.        Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches

The Cisco Nexus 9336C-SE1 Switch (Figure 1) is a 1RU switch that supports 3.6 Tbps of bandwidth and over 2.1 bpps. The switch can be configured to work as 1/10/25/40/50/100-Gbps offering flexible options in a compact form factor. Breakout is supported on all ports. Please see feature table below for more information.

Cisco Nexus 9336C-SE1 Switch

Product specifications

Table 3.        Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switch specifications

Table 4 presents the power supply part numbers compatible with Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches.

Table 4.        Power Supply Compatibility

Table 5 presents the fan part numbers compatible with Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches.

Table 5.        Fan Compatibility

Table 6 lists the performance and scalability specifications for the Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switch. (Check the software release notes for feature support information.)

Table 6.        Hardware performance and scalability specifications¹

Table 7 lists the environmental properties, and Table 8 lists the weights of the Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switch.

Table 7.        Environmental properties

Table 8.        Weight

Table 9 summarizes regulatory standards compliance for the Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches.

Table 9.        Regulatory standards compliance: safety and EMC

Software licensing and optics supported

The software packaging for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series offers flexibility and a comprehensive feature set. The default system software has a comprehensive Layer-2 security and management feature set. To enable additional functions, including Layer-3 IP unicast and IP multicast routing and Cisco Nexus Data Broker, you must install additional licenses. To meet customer requirements, licensing is available as both subscription and perpetual. The licensing guide illustrates the software packaging and licensing available to enable advanced features.

For the latest software release information and recommendations, refer to the product bulletin at https://www.cisco.com/go/nexus9000.

For details about the optics modules available and the minimum software release required for each supported module, visit https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/products_device_support_tables_list.html.

Ordering information

Table 10 presents ordering information for the Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series Switches.

Table 10.     Ordering information

Warranty, service, and support

The Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series has a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a Return Materials Authorization (RMA).

Cisco offers a range of professional, solution, and product support services for each stage of your Cisco Nexus 9300-SE1 Series deployment:

●     Cisco Data Center Quick Start Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches: this offering provides consulting services that include technical advice and assistance to help deploy Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch.

●     Cisco Data Center Accelerated Deployment Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches: this service delivers planning, design, and implementation expertise to bring your project into production. The service also provides recommended next steps, an architectural high-level design, and operation-readiness guidelines to scale the implementation to your environment.

●     Cisco Migration Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches: this service helps you migrate from Cisco Catalyst^® 6000 Series Switches to Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches.

●     Cisco Product Support: this support service is available globally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for Cisco software and hardware products and technologies associated with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Enhanced support options delivered by Cisco also include solution support for Cisco ACI, Cisco SMARTnet^™ service, and Cisco Smart Net Total Care^®* service.

●     For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/services.

Cisco environmental sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions, operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment sustainability” section of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:

Reference links to product-specific environmental sustainability information that is mentioned in relevant sections of this data sheet are provided in the following table:

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