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Nexus 9500 32p 100G NX-OS Agg & ACI Spine line card # N9K-X9732C-EX

Sale Price: US$  9,350.00  (83.0% OFF)

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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.

  1. 576 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
  2. 576 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
  3. 2304 25-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
  4. 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

Supported Optics Modules

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.

Mechanical Specifications

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.

Ordering Information

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