Cisco Nexus 9372TX Switch

Features and Capabilities

The Cisco Nexus 9372TX/9327TX-E Switch has 48 1/10GBase-T ports that can operate at 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds and six Quad Small Form Pluggable Plus (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 1.44 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. Nexus 9372TX/9327TX-E benefits are listed below.

Architectural Flexibility

• Includes top-of-rack or middle-of-row copper-based server access connectivity
• Includes a leaf node in a spine-leaf architecture for low-latency traffic flow and reduced convergence time in the event of a failure

Feature-Rich

• Nexus 9372TX-E supports IP-based endpoint group (EPG) classification in ACI mode
• Includes an enhanced version of Cisco NX-OS Software designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability
• ACI-ready hardware infrastructure allows users to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach
• Supports virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing
• An additional 25 MB buffer is included, surpassing competing switch offerings

Highly Available and Efficient Design

• High-density, non-blocking architecture
• Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration
• Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays

Simplified Operations

• Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation
• An intelligent API offers switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure
• Python Scripting for programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI)
• Hot and cold patching, and online diagnostics

Investment Protection

• A Cisco 40 Gb bidirectional transceiver allows for reuse of an existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet multimode cabling plant for 40 Gigabit Ethernet
• Support for 100 Mb, 1 Gb, and 10 Gb access connectivity for data centers migrating access switching infrastructure to faster speeds

Specifications at a Glance

The Nexus 9372TX/9372TX-E support:

• 1.44 Tbps of bandwidth in a 1 RU form factor
• 48 fixed 1/10-Gbps BASE-T ports that can operate at 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 10 Gbps speeds
• 6 fixed 40-Gbps QSFP+ for uplink connectivity that can be turned into 10 Gb ports through a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) adapter
• Latency of 1 to 2 microseconds
• Front-to-back or back-to-front airflow configurations
• 1+1 redundant hot-swappable 80 Plus Platinum-certified power supplies
• Hot swappable 2+1 redundant fan trays

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