Designed with Cisco Cloud Scale technology, the 93108TC-EX Switch offers a high performance Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set in a compact form factor. Its flexible switching platform works in both three-tier and spine-leaf architectures as a leaf node. With the option to operate in Cisco NX-OS or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, it is ideal for small business, enterprise, and service provider architectures.



The Nexus 93108TC-EX Switch has 48 1/10GBase-T ports that can operate at 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds, and six 40/100-Gbps Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 2.16 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor.

Architectural Flexibility



- Includes top-of-rack or middle-of-row copper-based server access connectivity

- Includes a leaf node in a spine-leaf architecture for low-latency traffic flow and reduced convergence time in the event of a failure



Feature-Rich

- Includes an enhanced version of Cisco NX-OS Software designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability

- The ACI-ready hardware infrastructure allows users to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach

- Supports virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing

- Rich traffic flow telemetry with line-rate data collection

- Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitoring traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns



Real-Time Visibility and Telemetry



- Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform support with built-in hardware sensors for rich traffic flow telemetry and line-rate data collection

- Cisco Nexus Data Broker support for network traffic monitoring and analysis

- Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitor traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns



Highly Available and Efficient Design



- High-density, non-blocking architecture

- Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration

- Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays



Simplified Operations

- Preboot execution environment (PXE) and Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation

- Automate and configure switches with DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

- An intelligent API offers switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure

- Python scripting gives programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI)

- Includes hot and cold patching, and online diagnostics