Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) in the data center is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. Cisco ACI provides a robust transport network for today's dynamic workloads. Cisco ACI 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.
The Cisco ACI fabric is designed from the foundation to support emerging industry demands while maintaining a migration path for architecture already in place. The fabric is designed to support the industry move to management automation, programmatic policy, and dynamic "workload-anywhere" models. The Cisco ACI fabric accomplishes this with a combination of hardware, policy-based control systems, and software closely coupled to provide advantages not possible in other models.
The Cisco ACI fabric consists of three major components:
- Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Spine switches
- Leaf switches
These three components handle both the application of network policy and the delivery of packets. Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches support Cisco ACI, and organizations can use them as spine or leaf switches to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach.
The Cisco Nexus 9300 platform leaf switches for Cisco ACI are fixed-port switches designed for top-of-rack (ToR) and middle-of-row (MoR) deployment in data centers that support enterprise applications, service provider hosting, and cloud computing environments. These Layer 2 and 3 nonblocking switches support 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) with up to 2.56 terabits per second (Tbps) of internal bandwidth.
- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Cisco Systems, Inc
- Manufacturer Website Address
- http://www.cisco.com
- Brand Name
- Cisco
- Product Line
- Nexus
- Product Type
- Layer 3 Switch
- Warranty
- Limited Warranty
- 1 Year
- Interfaces/Ports
- Uplink Port
- No
- Modular
- Yes
- Stack Port
- No
- Port/Expansion Slot Details
- 32 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Slot
- Media & Performance
- Media Type Supported
- Optical Fiber
- Ethernet Technology
- 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- Network Technology
- 40GBase-X
- I/O Expansions
- Total Number of Expansion Slots
- 32.0
- Expansion Slot Type
- QSFP+
- Network & Communication
- Layer Supported
- 3
- Management & Protocols
- Manageable
- Yes
- Power Description
- Power Source
- Power Supply
- Redundant Power Supply Supported
- Yes
- Physical Characteristics
- Compatible Rack Unit
- 1U
- Form Factor
- Rack-mountable
- Height
- 1.7"
- Width
- 17.3"
- Depth
- 22.5"
- Weight (Approximate)
- 22 lb
- Miscellaneous
- Environmentally Friendly
- Yes
