High Performance and Flexibility 1.All ports are line-rate 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet 2.Up to 2.5 Tbps and up to 1.4 billion packets per second (Bpps) 3.The design is optimized for ultra-low, nominal latency (approximately 650 nanoseconds) 4.Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet VPN (BGP EVPN) control plane offers scalable multitenancy and host mobility
Feature-Rich 1.Native line-rate virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing can enable mobility and tenant isolation 2.Integrates with Cisco Cloud Network Manager and XML management tools 3.Includes scalable and cost-effective network traffic monitoring with Cisco Nexus Data Broker
Simple Operations 1.Includes touchless boot-up with Power-On Auto-Provisioning (POAP) 2.Configuration management DevOps tools support Puppet, Chef, and Ansible 3.Advanced programmability functions include Cisco NX-API command-line interface (CLI), NX-API representational state transfer (REST), Cisco Embedded Event Manager, and Python scripting
Specifications at a Glance 1. 1-rack-unit (1RU) fixed form factor 2. 16 MB of deep-shared buffer 3. 32 Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) 40-Gbps ports. Each QSFP port supports 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit EtherneT 4. Up to 128 10-Gbps ports with a breakout cable 5. 2.8 Tbps switching capacity
