The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Switch has 48 1/10/25G-Gbps Small Form Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports and 6 40/100-Gbps Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) uplink ports. All ports are line rate, delivering 3.6 Tbps of throughput in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) form factor.Architectural Flexibility- Includes top-of-rack, fabric extender aggregation, or middle-of-row fiber-based server access connectivity for traditional and leaf-spine architectures- Includes leaf node support for Cisco ACI architecture- Increase scale and simplify management through Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender supportFeature-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- 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 patternsReal-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 patternsHighly Available and Efficient Design- High-performance, non-blocking architecture- Easily deployed into either a hot-aisle and cold-aisle configuration- Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fan traysSimplified 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