Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch
Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch Best Price & Specification
Features and capabilities:
- The Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch offers a comprehensive feature set, high resiliency,
- and a broad range of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet line cards. It can meet the most demanding requirements of enterprise, service provider, and cloud data centers.
Cisco ACI support
- Designed to support the Cisco next-generation data center based on Cisco ACI
Programmability
- Open API to manage the switch through remote-procedure calls (JavaScript Object Notation or XML) over HTTP or HTTPS
- Automated configuration through Linux shell scripts
- Support for customer applications through a Linux container environment
High availability
- Software patching for continued operations
- Redundant and hot-swappable supervisors, system controllers, power supplies, and fan trays
- Mix of third-party and Cisco application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for improved reliability
Energy efficiency
- Design without a midplane to optimize front-to-back airflow and reduce power consumption
- Optimized design with fewer ASICs, resulting in lower energy use
- Efficient power supplies that are rated at 80 Plus Platinum
Investment protection
- 40 Gb for reuse of existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet multimode cabling plant for 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- Support for Cisco NX-OS and Cisco ACI modes of operation
- Support for Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
- Form factor : 21 RU
- Line card slots : 16
- Supervisor slots : 2
- Fabric module slots : 6
- ACI support :Yes
- Bandwidth per slot (Tbps) : 3.84
- Bandwidth per system (Tbps) : 60
- Maximum number of 1/10G BASE-T ports : 768
- Maximum number of 10 GE ports : 2304
- Maximum number of 40 GE ports : 576
- Maximum number of 100GE ports : 576
- Airflow : Front to back
- Power supplies (3-kW AC/DC) : Up to 10
- Fan trays : 3
