Introduction

The Cisco Nexus® 9300-GX2 Series switches address the need for high-performance, power-efficient, compact switches in the networking infrastructure. These switches are optimized for supporting large network fabrics due to their compact size and high density. These ports support various speeds and breakouts, and offer wire-rate MACsec encryption.

The Cisco Nexus 9364D-GX2A is a 2-rack-unit (2RU) switch that supports 51.2 Tbps of bandwidth and 8.35 bpps across 64 fixed 400G QSFP-DD ports and 2 fixed 1/10G SFP+ ports (Figure 1). QSFP-DD ports also support native 200G (QSFP56), 100G (QSFP28), and 40G (QSFP+). Each port can also support 4 x 10G, 4 x 25G, 4 x 50G, 4 x 100G, and 2 x 200G breakouts. The first 16 ports, marked in green, are capable of wire-rate MACsec encryption. This switch is best suited to support massive scale-out fabrics as a compact, high-density spine.