Introduction

Designed with Cisco Cloud Scale technology, the 93108TC-EX Switch offers a high performance Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set in a compact form factor. Its flexible switching platform works in both three-tier and spine-leaf architectures as a leaf node. With the option to operate in Cisco NX-OS or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, it is ideal for small business, enterprise, and service provider architectures.

The Nexus 93108TC-EX Switch has 48 1/10GBase-T ports that can operate at 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, and 10-Gbps speeds, and six 40/100-Gbps Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 2.16 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor.
Architectural Flexibility

- Includes top-of-rack or middle-of-row copper-based server access connectivity
- Includes a leaf node in a spine-leaf architecture for low-latency traffic flow and reduced convergence time in the event of a failure

Feature-Rich
- Includes an enhanced version of Cisco NX-OS Software designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability
- The ACI-ready hardware infrastructure allows users to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach
- Supports virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) routing
- Rich traffic flow telemetry with line-rate data collection
- Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitoring traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns

Real-Time Visibility and Telemetry

- Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform support with built-in hardware sensors for rich traffic flow telemetry and line-rate data collection
- Cisco Nexus Data Broker support for network traffic monitoring and analysis
- Real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, for monitor traffic micro-bursts and application traffic patterns

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
- Preboot execution environment (PXE) and Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) support allows for simplified software upgrades and configuration file installation
- Automate and configure switches with DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
- An intelligent API offers switch management through remote procedure calls (RPCs, JSON, or XML) over a HTTP/HTTPS infrastructure
- Python scripting gives programmatic access to the switch command-line interface (CLI)
- Includes hot and cold patching, and online diagnostics

Management features

Switch type

Managed

Switch layer

L2/L3

MIB support

Y

Ports & interfaces

Fiber ports quantity

54

Fiber optic connector

QSFP28

Console port

RJ-45

USB 2.0 ports quantity

1

Data transmission

Switching capacity

2160 Gbit/s

Throughput

850 Mpps

MAC address table

256000 entries

Security

Access Control List (ACL)

Y

Access Control List (ACL) egress

2000

Access Control List (ACL) ingress

4000

Multicast features

Multicast support

Y

Design

Rack mounting

Y

Form factor

1U

Product colour

Grey

Performance

Built-in processor

Y

Internal memory

24000 MB

Flash memory

128000 MB

Buffer size

40000 KB

Mean time between failures (MTBF)

319790 h

Power

AC input voltage

100 - 240 V

AC input frequency

50 - 60 Hz

Power consumption (typical)

276 W

Power consumption (max)

460 W

DC voltage range

-48 - -60 V

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

N

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 40 °C

Operating relative humidity (H-H)

5 - 95%

Operating altitude

0 - 4000 m

Weight & dimensions

Width

439 mm

Depth

571 mm

Height

44 mm