Small Form Factor, High Performance

Scale beyond 8 terabits per second (Tbps) with the Cisco Nexus 7000 9-Slot Switch. Featuring a small form factor, high availability, and exceptional performance, this switch is designed to deliver a Unified Fabric to meet the needs of the most demanding data center environments and campus core deployments.

Features and Capabilities

Scalability

Protect your infrastructure investments with the following features:

• Switching capacity of more than 8 Tbps
• Modular, flexible, scalable NX-OS
• Efficient power and cooling design
• Virtualization for efficient resource utilization

Operational Continuity

The Cisco Nexus 7000 9-Slot Switch provides:

• Lossless, nondisruptive upgrades for zero service downtime
• Graceful system operations to minimize the effect of upgrades and other maintenance
• Comprehensive, open Extensible Markup Language (XML) API for flexible management options

Transport Flexibility

• Support for emerging 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet standards
• Support for new technologies with incremental upgrades
• Virtualized control plane and data plane forwarding for optimized performance
• Broad selection of high-performance I/O modules