Switches & Bridges

Based on the Cisco Cloud Scale technology the Cisco Nexus^® 9300-FX3 Series is the latest generation of access switches. Building on the successful Nexus 9300-FX series, the platform supports cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and is capable of wire-rate security and telemetry. The platform is built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance and meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers and growing enterprises.

Cisco provides two modes of operation for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Organizations can deploy Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI^®) or Cisco NX-OS mode.

Cisco ACI is a holistic, intent-driven architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. It provides a robust, transport network for dynamic workloads and is built on a network fabric that combines time-tested protocols with new innovations to create a highly flexible, scalable and resilient architecture of low-latency, high-bandwidth links. This fabric delivers a network that can support the most demanding and flexible data center environments.

Designed for the programmable network, the Cisco NX-OS operating system automates configuration and management for customers who want to take advantage of the DevOps operation model and tool sets.

Based on the Cisco Cloud Scale technology the Cisco Nexus^® 9300-FX3 Series is the latest generation of access switches. Building on the successful Nexus 9300-FX series, the platform supports cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and is capable of wire-rate security and telemetry. The platform is built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance and meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers and growing enterprises.

Cisco provides two modes of operation for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Organizations can deploy Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI^®) or Cisco NX-OS mode.

Cisco ACI is a holistic, intent-driven architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. It provides a robust, transport network for dynamic workloads and is built on a network fabric that combines time-tested protocols with new innovations to create a highly flexible, scalable and resilient architecture of low-latency, high-bandwidth links. This fabric delivers a network that can support the most demanding and flexible data center environments.

Designed for the programmable network, the Cisco NX-OS operating system automates configuration and management for customers who want to take advantage of the DevOps operation model and tool sets.

The Cisco Nexus® 9300-EX platform is the next generation of the fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switches are built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance to meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers. They offer a variety of interface options available to transparently migrate existing data centers from 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds to 25 Gbps at the server, and from 10 and 40 Gbps to 50 and 100 Gbps at the aggregation layer.

The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform provides investment protection for customers, with deep buffers, high Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability and performance to meet the changing needs of highly virtualized, automated cloud environments in data centers. The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform hardware supports Cisco® Data Center Interconnect (DCI) features, enabling flexible workload mobility and LAN and SAN convergence.

The Cisco Nexus® 9300-EX platform is the next generation of the fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switches are built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance to meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers. They offer a variety of interface options available to transparently migrate existing data centers from 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds to 25 Gbps at the server, and from 10 and 40 Gbps to 50 and 100 Gbps at the aggregation layer.

The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform provides investment protection for customers, with deep buffers, high Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability and performance to meet the changing needs of highly virtualized, automated cloud environments in data centers. The Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform hardware supports Cisco® Data Center Interconnect (DCI) features, enabling flexible workload mobility and LAN and SAN convergence.

The Cisco Nexus® 9300-FX2 Series switches belongs to the fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 platform based on Cisco Cloud Scale technology. The platform support cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, an increased number of endpoints, and cloud services with wire-rate security and telemetry. The platform is built on modern system architecture designed to provide high performance and meet the evolving needs of highly scalable data centers and growing enterprises.

Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 series is an extension of Nexus 9300-FX series switches with higher bandwidth capacity. The switches offer a variety of interface options to transparently migrate existing data centers from 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds to 25- Gbps at the server, and from 10- and 40-Gbps speeds to 50- and 100- Gbps at the aggregation layer. The platforms provide investment protection for customers, delivering large buffers, highly flexible Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability, and performance to meet the changing needs of virtualized data centers and automated cloud environments.

Cisco provides two modes of operation for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Organizations can use Cisco NX-OS Software to deploy the switches in standard Cisco Nexus switch environments (NX-OS mode). Organizations can also deploy the infrastructure that is ready to support the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) platform to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems-management approach (ACI mode).