Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switch

Features and Capabilities

The Cisco Nexus 9372PX/9372PX-E Switches has 48 1/10-Gbps Small Form Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) uplink ports. All the ports are line rate, delivering 1.44 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor. Nexus 9372PX benefits are listed below.

Architectural Flexibility

• Includes top-of-rack or middle-of-row fiber-based server access connectivity for traditional and leaf-spine architectures
• Leaf node support for Cisco ACI architecture is provided in the roadmap
• 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
• Nexus 9372PX-E supports IP-based endpoint group (EPG) classification in ACI mode

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 offers 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
• Support for 1 Gb and 10 Gb access connectivity for data centers migrating access switching infrastructure to faster speeds

Specifications at a Glance

The Cisco Nexus 9372PX/9372PX-E Switches supports:

• 1.44 Tbps of bandwidth in a 1 RU form factor
• 48 fixed 1/10-Gbps SFP+ ports
• 6 fixed 40-Gbps QSFP+ for uplink connectivity that can be turned into 10 Gb ports through a QSFP to SFP or SFP+ Adapter (QSA)
• 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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