Description

Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai presents a tailored solution for contemporary applications that are multinode, highly modular, and deployable across a combination of bare-metal, virtual, and cloud data center environments. Additionally, the switch caters to the diverse infrastructure and networking needs of individual departments within an organization. Operating in one of two modes—Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) or Cisco NX-OS—these switches, in Cisco ACI mode, offer a comprehensive, fully automated, policy-based architecture for the design and management of data center fabrics. In Cisco NX-OS mode, they provide the capability to leverage fundamental layer 2/3 technologies, along with modern technologies such as VXLAN, incorporating a Border Gateway Protocol-Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN) control plane, Segment routing, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and automation through NX-APIs.

Elevate performance and efficiency with the Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai. It delivers a high density of 1, 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, and 400 GE within a compact 7-rack-unit modular chassis. Engineered as a versatile modular switch, it is specifically designed for high-density, end-of-row, and high-performance aggregation-layer deployments, serving both traditional and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)–enabled data centers. The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai provides a comprehensive suite of features, robust resilience, and an extensive range of high-performance Gigabit Ethernet line cards, effectively meeting the most demanding requirements of enterprise, service provider, and cloud data centers.

Features

Deployment Flexibility

• Support for the next-generation data center based on Cisco ACI
• Nexus Fabric Manager support to automate fabric configuration and management
• Traditional data centers in standalone NX-OS mode

Programmability

• Open API to manage the switch through remote-procedure calls (JavaScript Object Notation or XML) over HTTP or HTTPS
• Automated configuration through Linux shell scripts
• Support for customer applications through a Linux container environment
• Programmable APIs for integration with DevOps automation tools

High Availability

• In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) and patching without operation interruption Redundant and hot-swappable supervisors, system controllers, power supplies, and fan trays
• Mix of third-party and Cisco application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for improved reliability

High performance

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch delivers nonblocking performance at a latency of 5 microseconds or less at 400-, 100-, 50-, 40-, 25-, 10-, and 1-Gigabit Ethernet speeds. This enables customers to build robust and scalable high-speed fabrics that can support several thousands of high-speed access ports

Telemetry

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch supports extensive switch and flow telemetry capabilities that provide extensive real-time visibility into switch and fabric states

High-density 1-, 10-, 25-, 40- and 50-Gigabit Ethernet access configuration

Organizations can transition from low-speed (100-Megabit Ethernet and 1-Gigabit Ethernet) server access designs to high-speed (1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, and 50-Gigabit Ethernet) server access designs with the same port density.

High-density 10-, 40-, 100- and 400-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation and spine configuration

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch help organizations transition from 1- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure to 10-, 40-, 100-, and 400-Gigabit Ethernet infrastructures to support the increased bandwidth demands of scale-out, multinode application environments. The compatibility of 400-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP-DD modules, 100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 modules, and 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ modules enables the migration and coexistence of 40-, 100- and 400-Gigabit Ethernet ports in the fabric.

High availability, reliability, and scalability

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch is designed with redundant supervisors, system controllers, power supplies, and fan trays, which eliminate any single point of failure in the chassis. These switches also support up to 6 fabric modules, which provide redundancy and graceful degradation of switching capacity in the event of fabric module failures. All transceivers are pluggable to support the highest possible Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for the switch.

Designed for the future

TheCisco Nexus9516 Dubai is designed for future expansion with the capability to support higher speed ports and more bandwidth.

Power efficiency

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai is the first switch chassis designed without a midplane. The line cards and fabric modules connect directly. This revolutionary design provides optimal front-to-back airflow and helps the switch operate with less power. In addition, all Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switch power supplies are rated at or higher than 80PLUS Platinum for AC inputs and equivalent efficiency for DC inputs. The typical power consumption per 10-Gigabit Ethernet port is less than 3.5 watts (W). The typical power consumption per 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet port is less than 14W and 22W respectively.

The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch supports various deployment scenarios:

• Spine nodes in a spine-leaf fabric. The high port-density and ability to support multispeed ports on the same chassis make the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches the ideal choice as a spine in spine-leaf fabric architectures.
• Core or aggregation node in an L2/L3 network. The Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch supports line cards that provide a choice of smart buffers, deep buffers, large tables, and high-density, high-speed Ethernet interfaces.
• Border gateway in a L2/L3 network. As the Cisco Nexus9516 Dubai Switch supports high-density, multispeed Ethernet ports, these switches can also be deployed as end-of-row switches providing access connections to blade or rack servers.

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