Nexus 9300 with 48p 10/25G SFP+, 6p 100G QSFP, MACsec, UP

Get high-density, nonblocking, and low-power 48 x 10/25-Gbps ports with the Nexus 93180YC-FX. This SFP-based switch supports Cisco Tetration Analytics for deep telemetry and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). It's ideal for leaf-and-spine deployment in enterprise, service provider, large virtualized, and cloud environments.

Architectural flexibility
- Leaf-node support for Cisco ACI architecture with flexible port configuration
- Seamless convergence thanks to 48 downlink ports that can work as 1/10/25-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE ports or as 8/16/32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports
- Easy migration with 6 uplink ports that can be configured as 40/100-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE ports

Rich features
- Automated policy-based systems management with Cisco ACI
- Open APIs enable third-party integration with our partners
- Better management of speed mismatch between access and uplink ports with 40 MB of shared buffer space
- Support for Fibre Channel interfaces for back-end storage connectivity

Top-notch security
- Whitelist model, policy enforcement and application security with Cisco ACI microsegmentation
- Wire-rate MACsec encryption on all ports

Real-time visibility and telemetry
- Built-in Cisco Tetration sensors for rich traffic-flow telemetry and line-rate data collection
- Get actionable insights in less than 1 second
- Get visibility into everything in your data center

Highly available and efficient design
- High-performance, nonblocking architecture
- Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle or a cold-aisle configuration
- Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays

Simplified operations
- Automate IT work flows and shorten app deployment from weeks to minutes

Investment protection
- Flexible migration options with support for 10-Gbps and 25-Gbps access connectivity and 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps uplinks
- Cisco's 40-Gbps bidirectional transceiver allows for reuse of an existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet multimode cabling plant for 40 Gigabit Ethernet