The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches support various deployment scenarios:
● Spine nodes in a spine-leaf fabric
● Core or aggregation node in an L2/L3 network
● Border gateway in a L2/L3 network
Spine-leaf fabric architecture
The high port-density and ability to support multispeed ports on the same chassis make the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches the ideal choice as a spine in spine-leaf fabric architectures. The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches can function as a spine in either Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) or Cisco NX-OS operating modes
Nexus 9500 Chasis
The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series modular switches support a comprehensive selection of line cards and fabric modules that provide 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 400-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Using these line cards the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches can be configured with up to.
1. 256 400-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
2. 524 200-Gigabit Ethernet ports# (or)
3. 1024 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
4. 2048 50-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
5. 1024 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
6. 2304 25-Gigabit Ethernet ports (or)
7. 2304 1/10-Gigabit Ethernet ports
