Features and Capabilities
High Performance and Flexibility
- All ports are line-rate 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- Up to 2.5 Tbps and up to 1.4 billion packets per second (Bpps)
- The design is optimized for ultra-low, nominal latency (approximately 650 nanoseconds)
- Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet VPN (BGP EVPN) control plane offers scalable multitenancy and host mobility
Feature-Rich
- Native line-rate virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing can enable mobility and tenant isolation
- Integrates with Cisco Cloud Network Manager and XML management tools
- Includes scalable and cost-effective network traffic monitoring with Cisco Nexus Data Broker
Simple Operations
- Includes touchless boot-up with Power-On Auto-Provisioning (POAP)
- Configuration management DevOps tools support Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
- Advanced programmability functions include Cisco NX-API command-line interface (CLI), NX-API representational state transfer (REST), Cisco Embedded Event Manager, and Python scripting
Specifications at a Glance
- 1-rack-unit (1RU) fixed form factor
- 16 MB of deep-shared buffer
- 32 Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) 40-Gbps ports. Each QSFP port supports 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit EtherneT
- Up to 128 10-Gbps ports with a breakout cable
- 2.8 Tbps switching capacity
Data Sheets and Literature
Data Sheets