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