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Data Sheet

Cisco Nexus 9300 Switches
Product Overview
Organizations everywhere recognize that changing application environments are creating new demands for the IT
infrastructure that supports them. Application workloads are deployed across a mix of virtualized and nonvirtualized
server and storage infrastructure, requiring a network infrastructure that provides consistent connectivity, security,
and visibility across a range of bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud computing environments:
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Application instances are created dynamically. As a result, the provisioning, modification, and removal of
application network connectivity needs to be dynamic as well.

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Business units demand accelerated application deployments. IT departments have to provide shared IT
infrastructure to address time-to-market needs and to increase their return on investment (ROI).

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With organizations deploying a mix of custom, open source, and off-the-shelf commercial applications, IT
departments must manage both security and quality of service (QoS) for environments that support
multitenancy.

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Applications have been transitioning over time to a less monolithic, scale-out, multinode model. IT
infrastructure that supports this model must scale with the speed of business and support both 10 and 40
Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.

The Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches include both modular and fixed-port switches that are designed to
overcome these challenges with a flexible, agile, low-cost, application centric infrastructure (ACI).
The Cisco Nexus 9300 platform is composed of fixed-port switches designed for top-of-rack (ToR) and middle-ofrow (MoR) deployment in data centers that support enterprise applications, service provider hosting, and cloud
computing environments. Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches are Layer 2 and 3 nonblocking 10 and 40 Gigabit
Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable switches with up to 1.28 terabits per second (Tbps) of
internal bandwidth.
The Cisco Nexus 9396PX Switch is a two-rack-unit (RU) switch that supports 960 Gbps of bandwidth across 48
fixed 10-Gbps SFP+ ports and 12 fixed 40-Gbps QSFP+ ports (Figure 1). The 40-Gbps ports are provided on an
uplink module that can be serviced and replaced by the user.
Figure 1.

Cisco Nexus 9396PX Switch

The Cisco Nexus 93128TX Switch is a 3RU switch that supports 1.28 Tbps across 96 fixed 1/10GBASE-T ports
and 8 fixed 40-Gbps QSFP ports (Figure 2). The 40-Gbps ports are provided on an uplink module that can be
serviced and replaced by the user. The uplink module is the same for both switches. If used with the Cisco Nexus
93128TX 8 out of the 12 40Gbps QSFP+ ports are available.

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