Cisco Nexus 9364E-SP2R Series Switches Data Sheet

Cisco N9000 Series Switches powering next-generation data centers

Cisco N9000 Series Switches for high-performance networking

The exponential growth of AI and machine-learning workloads demands a new era of network scalability, transcending the traditional boundaries of a single data center. Cisco's "scale across" architecture, powered by leading-edge 800G network switches, enables enterprises to unify multiple geographically distributed data centers into a single, massive computing resource pool. This innovative approach addresses the critical challenges of power, cooling, and physical space limitations inherent in single-site expansions. Cisco^® N9000 Series Switches, featuring the Cisco^® Silicon One^® P200 chip as the industry's first 51.2Tbps full-duplex, deep buffer processor, purpose-built for the Scale Across Era. It is the only 51.2Tbps deep-buffer chip designed to scale across all DCI needs to the foundational high-density 800G fabrics necessary for this transformation. These platforms deliver unprecedented throughput, deep buffering for congestion management, and advanced programmability, ensuring seamless and secure operation of distributed AI clusters across hundreds or even thousands of kilometers. Cisco empowers organizations to build elastic, consistent, and giga-scale AI infrastructure that is both future-ready and optimized for the most demanding workloads.

Cisco N9364E-SP2R: next-generation 800G spine switches

The Cisco Nexus 9364E-SP2R switch introduces high-density 800G spine to the data center fabric, while also supporting 400G, 200G, and 100G port speeds. Powered by Cisco Silicon One P200 ASIC, it is built for next-generation data-center deployments. The N9364E-SP2R features a 3RU form factor with 64 ports of 800 Gigabit Ethernet, available in QSFP-DD and OSFP options, delivering up to 102.4T Tbps of bandwidth, 19.2 billion packets per second (bpps), 144 MB of on-die packet buffer, and 16GB High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), crucial for handling bursty AI traffic and preventing packet loss.

Enterprise-ready flexibility and security

Cisco N9000 Series Switches provide a balanced combination of flexibility, robust security, and simplified operations for enterprise networks. Support for mixed port speeds enables seamless migration from 10/25/50G to 100/400/800G. Comprehensive data-center, multicast, Layer-2/3 capabilities – including EVPN-VXLAN, vPC, and advanced routing – simplify deployment, while features such as MACsec, secure boot, role-based access control, and network segmentation protect critical assets. Integrated automation and telemetry further streamline operations in hybrid- and multicloud environments.

Simplified data center operations

Data-center teams benefit from flexible, scalable solutions that simplify management, troubleshooting, and analytics. The N9000 series switches integrate seamlessly with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, providing enhanced security, automation, visibility, and assurance-making them an ideal foundation for building resilient, high-performance network fabrics.

High-performance Cisco ACI fabrics

Cisco N9000 Series spine switches form the high-speed backbone of the Cisco ACI^® fabric, connecting leaf switches through a fully meshed spine-leaf topology. These spine switches provide high port density and throughput, enabling scalable and resilient data-center networking. Leveraging advanced capabilities such as integrated analytics, and telemetry, these switches can operate as a Cisco ACI spine switch. N9000 series switches offer dual-role flexibility, allowing deployment as either spine or leaf switches depending on fabric requirements. The fabric is centrally managed by the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), which automates policy enforcement and network operations, ensuring high availability and load balancing across the spine-leaf architecture. Within this "scale across" architecture, Cisco ACI provides the intelligent, automated fabric for each individual data center, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and operational simplicity, which are then seamlessly interconnected by the high-speed 800G backbone.

Features and benefits

Table 1.           Features and benefits

Licensing

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, you must install additional licenses. The Cisco N9364E-SP2R switches uses the XF3 class Cisco Data Center Network (Cisco DCN) Premier, Advantage, and Essentials subscription licenses. 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 release notes.

This data sheet specifies hardware capabilities only. Please refer to Cisco ACI or Cisco NX-OS software release notes and appropriate feature documentation for more details.

Product specifications

Table 2.           Cisco N9364E-SP2R switches specifications

Table 3.           Cisco N9364E-SP2R switches power-supply specifications

Table 4.           Cisco N9364E-SP2R switch weight

Supported optics modules

For details on the optical modules available and the minimum software release required for each supported optical module, visit here.

Ordering information

Table 5.           Ordering information

Warranty information

The Cisco N9364E-SP2R switches have a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a Return Materials Authorization (RMA).

Product sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives and performance is provided in Cisco’s CSR and sustainability reporting.

Table 6.           Cisco environmental sustainability information

Cisco and partner services

Cisco offers a wide range of services to help accelerate your success in deploying and optimizing the Cisco N9000 Series Switches in your data center. The innovative Cisco Services offerings are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners and are focused on helping you increase operation efficiency and improve your data-center network. Cisco Advanced Services uses an architecture-led approach to help you align your data-center infrastructure with your business goals and achieve long-term value. The Cisco SMARTnet^® service helps you resolve mission-critical problems with direct access at any time to Cisco network experts and award-winning resources.

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