Besides the main five platforms of 3000 Series, 3100 Series, 3100V Series, 3200 Series and 3500 Series, the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series has added new models: 3600 Series.
The Cisco Nexus 3600 consists of two models: Nexus C36180YC-R (Released 08, SEP, 2017) and the latest Nexus 3636C-R.
- The Cisco Nexus C36180YC-R is a high-speed, high-density, 1, 10, 25, 40, or 100 Gigabit Ethernet switch designed for data center aggregation.
- The Cisco Nexus 3636C-R switch is a high-speed, high-density 10-, 25-, 40-, or 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch designed for the data center spine.
The large buffers and routing table sizes of the Cisco Nexus C36180YC-R and 3636C-R also make these two switches an alternative for a wide range of applications, such as IP storage, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), big data, and edge routing.
Both C36180YC-R and 3636C-R come in a compact 1-Rack-Unit (1RU) form factor and provides extensive Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions. It is part of the R-Series family and runs industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software.
The comprehensive programmability features enable organizations to run today’s applications while also preparing them for demanding and changing application needs. The Cisco Nexus C36180YC-R and Nexus 3636C-R support both forward and reverse (port-side exhaust and port-side intake) airflow schemes with AC and DC power inputs.
The Cisco Nexus C36180YC-R is a Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and Quad SFP (QSFP) switch with 48 SFP and 6 QSFP28 ports. Each SFP port can operate at 1, 10, or 25 Gigabit Ethernet and each QSFP28 can operate at 100 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet or in a breakout cable configuration (You can refer to the software release note and optics support page for more details). 6 QSFP28 ports can supports the IEEE 802.1ae MAC Security (MACSec) standard.
| Nexus C36180YC-R
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Nexus 3636C-R
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| Configuration | ● 48 ports 1, 10, or 25 Gigabit Ethernet SFP
● 6 ports 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28. All the 6 ports support wire-rate MACSec encryption. ● Locator LED ● Environment LED ● Status LED ● Dual redundant power supplies ● One 10-, 100-, or 1000-Mbps management port (cooper or fiber) ● One RS-232 serial console port ● One USB port |
● 36 QSFP28 ports operating at 40 or 100 Gigabit Ethernet
● 8 ports that can be used for MACSec ● Locator LED ● Environment LED ● Status LED ● Dual redundant power supplies ● 3 redundant fans ● One 10-, 100-, or 1000-Mbps management port (copper or fiber) ● One RS-232 serial console port ● One USB port |
Main Benefits-The Cisco Nexus C36180YC-R provides the following:
- Wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports, with up to 3.6 Terabits per second (Tbps) and up to 1.67 billion packets per second (bpps)
- Programmability, with support for Cisco NX-API, Linux containers, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), the OpenStack plug-in, Python, and Puppet and Chef configuration and automation tools
- High performance and scalability with a 6-core CPU, 32 GB of DRAM, and 8 GB of dynamic buffer allocation, making the switch excellent for massively scalable data centers and big data applications
- Flexibility:
◦ Both fiber and copper cabling solutions are available for 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, including Active Optical Cable (AOC) and Direct-Attached Cable (DAC)
◦ The QSFP28 ports can be configured to work as 4 x 25-Gbps or 4 x 10-Gbps ports
- High availability:
◦ Virtual PortChannel (vPC) technology provides Layer 2 multipathing by eliminating the Spanning Tree Protocol. It also enables fully used bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models
◦ Advanced maintenance capabilities include hot and cold patching and Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR) mode
◦ The switch uses hot-swappable Power-Supply Units (PSUs) and fans
- NX-OS operating system with comprehensive, proven innovations:
◦ Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) enables touchless bootup and configuration of the switch, drastically reducing provisioning time
◦ Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python scripting enable automation and remote operations in the data center
◦ EtherAnalyzer is a built-in packet analyzer for monitoring and troubleshooting control-plane traffic and is based on the popular Wireshark open-source network protocol analyzer
◦ Complete Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol suites are supported, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Main benefits-The Cisco Nexus 3636C-R switch provides:
- Wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports* with up to 7.2 Terabits per second (Tbps) and up to 3.34 billion packets per second (bpps)
- Programmability with support for the Cisco NX-API, Linux containers, XML, and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) APIs, the OpenStack plug-in, Python, and Puppet and Chef configuration and automation tools
- High performance and scalability with an 8-core CPU, 32 GB of DRAM, and 16 GB of dynamic buffer allocation, making the switch excellent for massively scalable data centers and big-data applications
- MACSec capability
- Higher TCAM capability
- Flexibility:
◦ Fiber cabling solutions are available for 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, and 100-Gbps connectivity, including Active Optical Cable (AOC) and Direct-Attached Cable (DAC).
◦ Configurable QSFP28 Uplinks to work as 4 x 25-Gbps or 4 x 10-Gbps port.
- High availability:
◦ Virtual Port Channel (VPC) technology provides Layer 2 multipathing by eliminating the Spanning Tree Protocol. It also enables fully used bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models.
◦ Advanced maintenance capabilities include hot and cold patching and Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR) mode.
◦ The switch uses hot-swappable Power-Supply Units (PSUs) and fans.
- NX-OS operating system with comprehensive, proven innovations:
◦ Power-On Auto Provisioning (POAP) enables touchless bootup and configuration of the switch, drastically reducing provisioning time.
◦ Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python scripting enable automation and remote operations in the data center.
◦ EtherAnalyzer is a built-in packet analyzer for monitoring and troubleshooting control-plane traffic that is based on the popular Wireshark open-source network protocol analyzer.
◦ Complete Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol suites are supported, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).
Cisco 100-Gigabit Transceiver Modules for Nexus 3600 Series
25-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules for N3K-C36180YC-R
| Platform | Switch or Module | Transceiver Model | Minimum Software Release Required | |
| DOM Support | Software Release | |||
| Cisco Nexus 3000 Series | N3K-C36180YC-R | SFP-H25G-CU1M SFP-H25G-CU2M SFP-H25G-CU3M* SFP-H25G-CU5M** |
— | NX-OS 7.0(3)F3(1) |
Cisco 10-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules for N3K-C36180YC-R
*Host side needs to support/enable at least FC-FEC.
**Host side needs to support/enable RS-FEC
Cisco 40-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules for Cisco Nexus 3600 Series
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