Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 - Switch - L3 - Managed - 36 x 100 Gigabit QSFP28 / 40 Gigabit QSFP28 - front and side to back - rack-mountable

The Cisco Nexus FX2 Series switches are part of the fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 platform utilizing Cisco Cloud Scale technology. Designed for cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, these switches support increased endpoints, wire-rate security, and telemetry for cloud services. The platform features modern system architecture, delivering high performance to meet the evolving demands of scalable data centers and expanding enterprises.

An extension of the Nexus FX series, the FX2 series boasts higher bandwidth capacity. With various interface options, these switches enable a seamless transition from 1-Gbps and 10-Gbps speeds to 25-Gbps at the server, and from 10- and 40-Gbps speeds to 50- and 100-Gbps at the aggregation layer. Offering investment protection, the platforms provide large buffers, highly flexible Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability, and performance adjustments to align with the dynamic requirements of virtualized data centers and automated cloud environments.

The Cisco Nexus N9K-C9336C= Leaf Switch, a compact 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) device, boasts 7.2 Tbps bandwidth and 2.4 bpps. It features 96 fixed 10/25G SFP+ downlink ports and 12 fixed 40/100G QSFP28 uplink ports, supporting 1/10/25-Gbps on downlinks and offering flexible migration options on uplinks as 40- and 100-Gbps ports. Additionally, the switch is equipped with FC-FEC and RS-FEC for extended 25Gbps support over longer distances.