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