Nexus 9500 32p 100G NX-OS Agg & ACI Spine line card # N9K-X9732C-EX
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The Cisco Nexus® 9500 switching platform (Figure 1) offers three modular chassis:
- Cisco Nexus 9500 4-slot switch
- Cisco Nexus 9500 8-slot switch
- Cisco Nexus 9500 16-slot switch
Figure 1.
Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Cloud-Scale Switch Chassis
The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series modular switches are capable of supporting up to 172.8 Terabits per second (Tbps) bandwidth with a comprehensive selection of cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules that provide 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, and 100-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Using these cloud-scale line cards the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches can be configured with up to.
- 576 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
- 576 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
- 2304 25-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
- 2304 1/10-Gigabit Ethernet ports
Cisco Nexus 9500 Platform Cloud-Scale Line Cards
The Cisco Nexus 9500 platform supports a rich selection of hot-swappable multispeed cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules optimized for data-center deployments. These cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules, built using Cisco® cloud-scale ASICs, provide the ideal foundation for large scalable data centers. The Cisco clouds-scale ASICs provide enhanced performance and features that are required to meet the evolving needs of the world’s largest cloud-scale data centers. These ASICs not only support foundational L2/L3 networking capabilities but also support enhanced capabilities such as policy-based fabric architectures (ACI or VXLAN), smart buffering, integrated line rate security, and real-time streaming telemetry over multispeed Ethernet ports.
Table 1. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Cards
| Line Card Type | Description |
| 100-Gbps line cards | |
| N9K-X9732C-EX: 100-Gigabit Ethernet Line Card | ● 32-port 100-Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 28 (QSFP28) line card
● Every QSFP28 supports 1x100-, 2x50-, 1x40-, 4x25-, 4x10-, and 1x1/10-Gigabit Ethernet |
| N9K-X9736C-FX: 100-Gigabit Ethernet Line Card | ● 36-port 100-Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 28 (QSFP28) line card
● Every QSFP28 supports 1x100-, 2x50-, 1x40-, 4x25-, 4x10-, and 1x10-Gigabit Ethernet ● Ports 1 – 28 support 1 Gigabit Ethernet |
| N9K-X9732C-FX: 100-Gigabit Ethernet Line Card | ● 32-port 100-Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 28 (QSFP28) line card
● Every QSFP28 supports 1x100-, 2x50, 1x40-, 4x25-, 4x10-, and 1x1/10-Gigabit Ethernet ● Supports 4+1 FM redundancy |
| N9K-X9736C-EX: 100-Gigabit Ethernet Line Card | ● 36-port 100-Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 28 (QSFP28) line card
● Every QSFP28 supports 1x100-, 2x50-, 1x40-, 4x25-, 4x10-, and 1x1/10-Gigabit Ethernet |
| 10/25-Gbps Fiber Line Cards | |
| N9K-X97160YC-EX: 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet Access-Layer and 10/40/100-Gigabit Ethernet Aggregation-Layer Line Card | ● 48-port 1-, 10-, and 25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ and 4-port 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 line card |
| 10-Gbps copper line cards | |
| N9K-X9788TC-FX: 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet BaseT Access-Layer and 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Aggregation-Layer Line Card | ● 48-port 100-Megabit and 1/10-Gigabit Ethernet BASE-T and 4-port 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 line card |
| Line Card/Features | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco ACI® spine | MACSec | CloudSec | N+1 FM redundancy |
| X9732C-EX | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| X9736C-FX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
(Ports: 28 – 36) |
No |
| X9732C-FX | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| X9736C-EX | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| X97160YC-EX | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| X9788TC-FX | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Table 2. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Card Specifications
| Line card/FM | FM required for max bandwidth | FM required for N+1 redundancy | Performance | Packet buffer |
| X9732C-EX | 4 | N/A | 6.4 Tbps
10.23 bpps |
160 MB |
| X9736C-FX | 5* | N/A | 7.2 Tbps
11.50 bpps |
160 MB |
| X9732C-FX | 4 | 5# | 6.4 Tbps
10.23 bpps |
160 MB |
| X9736C-EX | 4 | N/A | 6.4 Tbps
10.23 bpps |
160 MB |
| X97160YC-EX | 4 | N/A | 3.2 Tbps
5.11 bpps |
80 MB |
| X9788TC-FX | 4 | N/A | 1.76 Tbps
13.1 bpps |
80MB |
* To achieve max bandwidth with 5 fabric modules and X9736C-FX cards, the line cards in the chassis must only be the X9736C-FX cards. The X9736C-FX cards supports up to 3.2Tbps when mixed with other line cards and 4 fabric modules.
# To achieve N+1 fabric module redundancy with 5 fabric modules and X9732C-FX cards, the line cards in the chassis must only be the X9732C-FX cards.
Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Platform Fabric Modules and Performance
The Cisco Nexus 9500 platform is designed as a Clos fabric that interconnects each line card directly with each rear-mounted fabric module. Each cloud-scale fabric module provides 800 Gbps of bandwidth to each slot in a chassis. All traffic between the line cards is load balanced across all fabric modules, providing optimal bandwidth distribution within the chassis. This load-balancing capability provides enhanced system reliability and redundancy. The switch continues to operate even in the event of a loss of a fabric module, albeit at a lower capacity, as the remaining fabric modules continue to provide switching capacity to the line cards.
Table 3. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Cards and Fabric Modules Compatibility
| Line card/FM | C9504-FM-E | C9508-FM-E C9508-FM-E2 |
C9516-FM-E | C9516-FM-E2 |
| X9732C-EX | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS |
| X9736C-FX | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco ACI spine & Cisco NX-OS |
| X9732C-FX | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS |
| X9736C-EX | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS |
| X97160YC-EX | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS |
| X9788TC-FX | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS | Cisco NX-OS |
The Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud Scale line cards support several forwarding templates to efficiently allocate onboard memory for varying deployment scenarios.
Table 4. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Cards: Product Specifications – Performance and Scale
| Cisco Nexus 9500 Series cloud-scale line cards (X9732C-EX, X9736C-EX, X97160YC-EX) | Cisco Nexus 9500 Series cloud-scale line cards (X9736C-FX, X9732C-FX, X9788TC-FX) | ||
| Number of Longest Prefix Match (LPM) route entries | IPv4: up to 1 million
IPv6: 1900 to 500,000 (based on prefix length) |
IPv4:uUp to 2 million
IPv6: 1,900 to 1 million (based on prefix length) |
|
| Number of IP host entries | IPv4: up to 1 million
IPv6: up to 16,000 |
IPv4: up to 2 million
IPv6: up to 32,000 |
|
| Number of MAC address entries | Up to 512,000 | Up to 512,000 | |
| Number of multicast routes | Up to 32,000 | Up to 64,000 | |
| Number of Interior Gateway Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping groups | With VPC: 4000 to 32,000
Without VPC: 8000 to 32,000 |
With VPC: 4000 to 32,000
Without VPC: 8000 to 32,000 |
|
| Number of VLANs | Up to 4096 | Up to 4096 | |
| Number of Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances | Up to 16,000 | Up to 16,000 | |
| Number of port channels | Up to 512 | Up to 512 | |
| Number of port channel links | Up to 32 | Up to 32 | |
| Number of Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) paths | Up to 64 | Up to 64 | |
| Number of active Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) sessions | 4 to 32 | 4 to 32 | |
| Number of Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) instances | Up to 64 | Up to 64 | |
| Number of Rapid per-VLAN Spanning Tree (RPVST) instances | Up to 4000 | Up to 4000 | |
| Number of Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) groups | Up to 490 | Up to 490 | |
| Number of tunnel endpoints (VTEP) and VXLAN physical servers per VLAN | Up to 10,000 | Up to 10,000 | |
Each Cisco Nexus 9500 cloud-scale line card supports an extensive set of optic modules. The Cisco Transceiver Compatibility page (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/products-device-support-tables-list.html) provides the complete compatibility details.
Table 5. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Cards: Product Specifications – Mechanical
| X9732C-EX | X9736C-FX | X9732C-FX | X9736C-EX | X97160YC-EX | X9788TC-FX | |
| Weight | 12.13 lb
5.5 kg |
14.38 lb
6.5 kg |
15 lb
6.8 kg |
14.77 lb
6.7 kg |
12.75 lb
5.78 kg |
13 lb
5.9 kg |
| Typical power | 430 W | 607 W | 520 W | 632 W | 415 W | 513 W |
| Maximum power | 720 W | 720 W | 840 W | 792 W | 516 W | 684 W |
| Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) hours | 481,470 | 420,050 | 429,090 | 476,970 | 580,050 | 429,630 |
| Hot swappable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Airflow | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake |
Table 6. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Fabric Modules: Product Specifications – Mechanical
| N9K-C9504-FM-E | N9K-C9508-FM-E | N9K-C9508-FM-E2 | N9K-C9516-FM-E | N9K-C9516-FM-E2 | |
| Total capacity | 3200 Gbps | 6400 Gbps | 6400 Gbps | 12,800 Gbps | 12,800 Gbps |
| Capacity (per slot) | 800 Gbps | 800 Gbps | 800 Gbps | 800 Gbps | 800 Gbps |
| Maximum flow size | 100 Gbps | 100 Gbps | 100 Gbps | 50 Gbps | 100 Gbps |
| Weight | 6.6 lb (2.98 kg) | 11.6 lb (5.28 kg) | 10.94 lb (5.0 kg) | 22.7 lb (10.3 kg) | 20.31 lb (9.21 kg) |
| Typical power | 234 W | 455 W | 266 W | 980 W | 439 W |
| Maximum power | 313 W | 570 W | 420 W | 1320 W | 900 W |
| MTBF hours | 829,890 | 653,420 | 642,820 | 363,100 | 515,870 |
| Hot swappable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Airflow | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake | Port-side intake |
Note:
This data sheet specifies hardware capabilities only. Please refer to Cisco ACI or Cisco NX-OS software release notes and appropriate feature documentation for more details.
Regulatory Standards Compliance
Table 7. Regulatory Standards Compliance: Safety and EMC
| Specification | Description |
| Regulatory compliance | Products should comply with CE Markings according to directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC |
| Safety | ● UL 60950-1 Second Edition
● CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition ● EN 60950-1 Second Edition ● IEC 60950-1 Second Edition ● AS/NZS 60950-1 ● GB4943 |
| EMC: Emissions | ● 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
● AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A ● CISPR22 Class A ● EN55022 Class A ● ICES003 Class A ● VCCI Class A ● EN61000-3-2 ● EN61000-3-3 ● KN22 Class A ● CNS13438 Class A |
| EMC: Immunity | ● EN55024
● CISPR24 ● EN300386 ● KN 61000-4 series |
| RoHS | The product is RoHS-6 compliant with exceptions for leaded-Ball Grid-Array (BGA) balls and lead press-fit connectors. |
Table 8. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Line Cards: Ordering Information
| Part Number | Product Description |
| N9K-X9732C-EX | Cisco Nexus 9500 32p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X9732C-EX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 32p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
| N9K-X9736C-FX | Cisco Nexus 9500 36p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X9736C-FX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 36p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
| N9K-X9732C-FX | Cisco Nexus 9500 32p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X9732C-FX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 32p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
| N9K-X9736C-EX | Cisco Nexus 9500 36p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X9736C-EX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 36p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
| N9K-X97160YC-EX | Cisco Nexus 9500 48p 1/10/25G SFP+ plus 4p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X97160YC-EX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 48p 1/10/25G SFP+ plus 4p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
| N9K-X9788TC-FX | Cisco Nexus 9500 48p 1/10G BaseT plus 4p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card |
| N9K-X9788TC-FX= | Cisco Nexus 9500 48p 1/10G BaseT plus 4p 100G QSFP cloud-scale line card (Spare) |
Table 9. Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud-Scale Fabric Modules Ordering INFORMATION
| Part Number | Product Description |
| N9K-C9504-FM-E | Cisco Nexus 9500 4-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) |
| N9K-C9504-FM-E= | Cisco Nexus 9500 4-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) (Spare) |
| N9K-C9508-FM-E | Cisco Nexus 9500 8-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) |
| N9K-C9508-FM-E= | Cisco Nexus 9500 8-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) (Spare) |
| N9K-C9516-FM-E | Cisco Nexus 9500 16-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (50G flows) |
| N9K-C9516-FM-E= | Cisco Nexus 9500 16-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (50G flows) (Spare) |
| N9K-C9508-FM-E2 | Cisco Nexus 9500 8-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) |
| N9K-C9508-FM-E2= | Cisco Nexus 9500 8-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) (Spare) |
| N9K-C9516-FM-E2 | Cisco Nexus 9500 16-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) |
| N9K-C9516-FM-E2= | Cisco Nexus 9500 16-slot 800Gbps cloud-scale fabric module (100G flows) (Spare) |
Nexus 9500 32p 100G NX-OS Agg & ACI Spine line card # N9K-X9732C-EX
