Performance and Scale in a Small Form Factor
The Nexus 9332PQ Switch provides a line-rate layer 2 and layer 3 feature set in a compact form factor. It offers a flexible switching platform for both 3-tier or spine-leaf architectures as a leaf node. With the option to operate in Cisco NX-OS or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, it can be deployed within small business, enterprise, and service provider architectures.
Increase Data Center Performance
Get 40 Gbps at very little cost, without upgrading the fiber infrastructure.
Features and Capabilities
The Cisco Nexus 9332PQ Switch has 32 x 40 Gbps Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+) ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 2.56 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. Nexus 9332PQ benefits are listed below.
Architectural Flexibility
- Fiber-based aggregation switch for traditional and leaf and spine architectures
- Leaf node support for Cisco ACI architecture
- Increased scale and simplified management through Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender support
Feature-Rich
- Offers an enhanced version of Cisco NX-OS Software designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability
- ACI-ready hardware infrastructure allows users to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach
- Supports virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing
- An additional 25 MB buffer is included, surpassing competing switch offerings
Highly Available and Efficient Design
- High-density, non-blocking architecture
- Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration
- Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays
Simplified Operations
- Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation
- An intelligent API allows for switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure
- Python Scripting for programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI)
- Hot and cold patching and online diagnostics
Investment Protection
A Cisco 40 Gb bidirectional transceiver allows for reuse of an existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet multimode cabling plant for 40 Gigabit Ethernet.
Specifications at a Glance
The Nexus 9332PQ supports:
- 2.56 Tbps of bandwidth in a 1 RU form factor
- 32 40-Gbps QSFP+
- Latency of 1 to 2 microseconds
- Front-to-back or back-to-front airflow configurations
- 1+1 redundant hot-swappable 80 Plus Platinum-certified power supplies
- Hot swappable 2+1 redundant fan trays
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