N9K-C9316D-GX Cisco 16 x 400/100/40-Gbps Terabit-Scale Switch

N9K-C9316D-GX Overview

Based on Cisco® Cloud Scale technology, the Cisco Nexus^® 9300-GX switches are the next generation of fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The platform introduces a fully backward-compatible 400G optical interface Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable – Double Density (QSFP-DD) to transparently migrate existing data center fabrics from 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps speeds to 400 Gbps. The platform provides investment protection for customers, delivering highly flexible layer 2 and layer 3 scalability, and performance to meet the changing needs of virtualized data centers and automated cloud environments.