The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches 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.

High-density 10-, 40-, 100- and 400-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation and spine 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 1-, 10-, 25-, 40- and 50-Gigabit Ethernet access configuration

The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches support extensive switch and flow telemetry capabilities that provide extensive real-time visibility into switch and fabric states. This enables customers to build robust and scalable high-speed fabrics that can support several thousands of high-speed access ports. 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. The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches include the Nexus 9500 Series modular switches and the Nexus 9200/9300 Series fixed switches. In Cisco NX-OS mode, these switches provide 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. In Cisco ACI mode, these switches provide a turnkey, fully automated, policy-based architecture to design and manage data center fabrics. The Cisco Nexus ® 9000 Series Switches operate in one of two modes – Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI ™) or Cisco NX-OS. These factors require that data center networks be simple, programmable, extensible, scalable, and shareable to meet the demands of applications.

In addition to that, individual departments within an organization have varying infrastructure and networking needs. Modern applications are multinode, highly modular, and deployed over a combination of bare-metal, virtual, and cloud data center environments. Application architectures and deployment modes are rapidly evolving.

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