The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch has 48 1/10/25G-Gbps Small Form Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports and 6 40/100-Gbps Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 3.6 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. Architectural Flexibility - Includes top-of-rack, fabric extender aggregation, or middle-of-row fiber-based server access connectivity for traditional and leaf-spine architectures - Includes leaf node support for Cisco ACI architecture - Increase scale and simplify management through Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender support Feature-Rich - Enhanced Cisco NX-OS Software is designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability - ACI-ready infrastructure helps users take advantage of automated policy-based systems management - Virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing provides network services - Rich traffic flow telemetry with line-rate data collection - Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitoring traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns Real-Time Visibility and Telemetry - Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform support with built-in hardware sensors for rich traffic flow telemetry and line-rate data collection - Cisco Nexus Data Broker support for network traffic monitoring and analysis - Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitor traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns Highly Available and Efficient Design - High-performance, non-blocking architecture - Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration - Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays Simplified Operations - Preboot execution environment (PXE) and Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation - Automate and configure switches with DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible - An intelligent API offers switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure - Python scripting gives programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI) - Includes hot and cold patching, and online diagnostics