Description

Cisco Nexus9504 Network Switch Ghana

The Cisco Nexus9504 Ghana Switch operates in one of two modes; Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) or Cisco NX-OS. In Cisco ACI mode, this switch provides a turnkey, fully automated, policy-based architecture to design and manage data center fabrics. In Cisco NX-OS mode, the Switch provides the capability to use foundational layer 2/3 technologies, as well as modern technologies such as VXLAN, with a Border Gateway Protocol‒Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN) control plane, Segment routing, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and automation via NX-APIs.

Cisco Nexus9504 Ghana Switch provides high density 1, 10, 25, 40, 50, 100, and 400 GE in a compact 7-rack-unit modular chassis improving performance and efficiency. This versatile modular switch is designed for high-density, end-of-row, and high-performance aggregation-layer deployments in both traditional and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)–enabled data centers. The Cisco Nexus9504 Ghana Switch offers a comprehensive feature set, high resiliency, and a broad range of high performance Gigabit Ethernet line cards. It can meet the most demanding requirements of enterprise, service provider, and cloud data centers.

Features

Cisco Nexus9504 Ghana is 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

Energy Efficiency

• Designed without a midplane to optimize front-to-back airflow and reduce power consumption
• Optimized design with fewer ASICs, resulting in lower energy use
• Efficient power supplies that are rated at 80 Plus Platinum

High performance

The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series 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 Nexus9504 Ghana 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 Nexus9504 Ghana helps 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 Nexus9504 Ghana is designed with redundant supervisors, system controllers, power supplies, and fan trays, which eliminate any single point of failure in the chassis. This Switch 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.

Supports Future Growth

The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches are designed for future expansion with the capability to support higher speed ports and more bandwidth.

Power efficiency

The Cisco Nexus9504 Ghana 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.

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