Nexus

9000 Series
400G and 800G
Gerald Richard. Product Manager
Mike Dilio, Product Marketing Manager

Cloud Networking
 Introduction

Agenda Cisco Nexus 9800 series

Cisco Nexus 9400 series

Cisco Nexus 9300 series

Cisco Nexus 9500 series

Conclusion

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Cloud and data center speed transitions

E 800G

D 400G

C 100G

L 50G

X/Y 10G/25G

XT 10GT

G 1G

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Cisco cloud networking ASICs

25.6Tbps LS25600GX2A G100 25.6T

12.8Tbps LS12800GX2B Q200 12.8T

6.4Tbps LS6400GX

3.6Tbps LS3600FX2

1.8Tbps LS1800EX LS1800FX3

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Addressing the growing challenges in the data center

Distributed apps Data growth Sustainable operations

Distributed apps drive more E/W traffic Growth of data intensive workloads: Need for more sustainable data
within and between data centers and AI/ML, analytics center operations, need to drive
clouds; network is the backplane of better performance/watt
the system/app

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400G/800G use cases

Cloud service providers Telco service providers Enterprise Media networks

Scale-out fabrics 100G/400G/800G fabrics High performance IO IP Fabric for Media (IPFM)

Transition from 10/40G to Space constrained SP DC AI/ML compute clusters 8K uncompressed video
25/50/100G server NICs and edge locations requiring 400G fabrics is driving 100G endpoints

Lower power per gigabit Ready for NFV/5G adoption cycle Enhanced flow level visibility Need for 400G/800G uplinks

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 Nexus 9000 400G/800G portfolio evolution
Nexus 9408
64p 400G
Nexus 9300 128p 200G
48p 400G 800G
64p 400G

Nexus 9500
Nexus 9300 16 port 400G line card
16p 400G
28p 100G + 8p 400G
Nexus 9804
Up to 144 400G ports
Nexus 9808 800G ready
Up to 288 400G ports
Nexus 9300
800G ready
32p 400G
400G

100G

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Cloud Telco
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service providers service providers
Cisco Nexus 9800 Series

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Introducing Cisco Nexus
9800 Series Industry leading
Performance, flexibility, and efficiency 12.8Tb switch on a chip

High performance | High port density |

Scalable | Low power

14.4 Tbps per slot | 36 400G ports per slot

8-slot and 4-slot modular switches

Cisco ACI spine and NX-OS capable

Line rate MACsec

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Cisco Nexus 9800: Redundancy capabilities

n + n power supply redundancy

Dual input power supply for input source redundancy

1 + 1 supervisor redundancy

16RU

n + 1 fabric module redundancy

fan tray redundnacy GIR (graceful insertion and removal) SW

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Cisco Nexus
9800 Series
36-port 400G MACsec line card

36 QSFP56-DD Ports | 14.4Tbps

Line-rate MACsec on all ports

ZR and ZR+ support

3x 108MB on-die + 8GB HBM packet buffer

4x 100G, 4x 25G, and 4x 10G breakout

7+1 fabric module redundancy

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Cisco Nexus 9400 Series

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Introducing
Nexus 9408: Centralized
modular
Cisco Cloud Scale 25.6 Tbps (GX2A) ASIC

Speed and density

Up to 64 400G ports or 128 200G ports 4RU
Breakout support for 10G, 25G, 50G, 100G, and 200G

Enhanced telemetry
FT, FTE, SSX, INT-XD at 400G speeds

Secure fabric connectivity Specifications

MACsec and CloudSec at 400G speeds
Depth 24”

Switch card 1 (25.6 Tbps: field replaceable)

Supervisor Supervisor 1 (field replaceable)
x86 6-core | 32GB DDR4 | 128GB SSD
Expansion slots 8

Port cards 8p QSFP-DD 400G or 16p QSFP56 200G (field replaceable)

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Cisco Nexus 9408 design
advantages

Chassis
600mm deep 64-port 400G centralized modular switch

Switch card
26-layer PCB Switch Card with one row of connectors
Enhanced performance, reliability, and durability
LEM
One RAOH connector
Line extension module (LEM)
Single PCB design for both 400G and 200G interface cards (LEM) with one connector
per LEM
Less complexity and better reliability

LEM
Single PCB design

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Cisco Nexus 9300 Series

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Cisco Nexus
high density 400G fixed
switches

ACI Leaf, ACI Spine, and NX-OS

25.6T, 19.2T, and 12.8T 400G switches
120MB smart buffer

N9K-C9364D-GX2A
Security
MACsec and CloudSec

Telemetry
FT, FTE, SSX, INT-XD

N9K-C9348D-GX2A

N9K-C9332D-GX2B

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Nexus 9300 high density 400G switches

Nexus 9332D-GX2B Nexus 9348D-GX2A Nexus 9364D-GX2A

32p 400G 48p 400G 64p 400G
8p MACsec/CloudSec 48p MACsec/CloudSec 16p MACsec/CloudSec

Nexus 9316D-GX Nexus 93600CD-GX

16p 400G 28p 100G + 8p 400G

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Cisco Nexus 9300 cloud scale 100/400G switches

ACI leaf ACI spine ACI spine or leaf

Nexus 9336C-FX2 Nexus 9332D-GX2B

36p 100G Nexus 9364C 32p 400G
64p 100G Nexus 9364D-GX2B
64p 400G

Nexus 9316D-GX
Nexus 9332C 16p 400G
32p 100G
Nexus 9364C-GX
64p 40/100G
Nexus 93600CD-GX
28p 40/100G & 8p 400G

NX-OS

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Cisco Nexus 9500 Series

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400G on Nexus 9500
Series chassis

Speed and density

16 ports of line rate 400G with FM-G
Breakout support for 10G, 25G, 50G, 100G, and 200G

Enhanced telemetry
FT, FTE, SSX, INT-XD at 400G speeds

Secure fabric connectivity

MACsec and CloudSec at 400G speeds

Compatibility
Interoperable with 100G, 25G, and 10GBaseT line cards N9K-C9508-FM-G
1.6T fabric module
N9K-X9716D-GX N9K-C9504-FM-G
16p 400G line card 1.6T fabric module

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Cloud networking: Platform evolution

Nexus 9800
100G/400G/800G 800G¹

Nexus 9500
40G/100G/400G
40G 100G 400G

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¹ Roadmap Ready
Transition to higher bandwidth and wider fabrics
ACI, VXLAN EVPN and IP-based fabrics

Nexus 9500 Nexus 9800

115Tbps fabric using four spines 460Tbps fabric using four spines

800Gbps

800Gbps future
proof 400Gbs
Spine Spine

100Gbps
400Gbps

288-512 leaf 100Gbps 288-1152 leaf

<1152 leaf
<288 leaf <512 leaf
with 100G
with 400G ACI/ with 100G ACI/
IP-based
VXLAN-based fabric VXLAN-based fabric
fabric

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