1/10/25/40/50/100 GE ToR with MACsec
Cisco Nexus 3264C-E switch offers 64 X 100 GE ports in 2RU with breakout. It is the first switch to introduce MACsec to the 3200 family. It offers a dense, high-performance, power-efficient and future-proof design to scale your data center. The 3264C-E supports Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports with latency of 450ns.
Features and capabilities
High performance and scalability
- 1/10/25/40/50/100 GE flexible port speeds and breakout
- Wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching on all ports with latency of 450ns
- 42 MB of dynamic buffer allocation, 4-core CPU, 16 GB of DRAM for massively scalable data centers and big data applications
Security and analytics
- MACsec support on 16 ports
- 1588 UTC format Ingress, Egress Packet time stamping
- Continuous system monitoring and proactive notifications with NX-OS troubleshooting and diagnostics
Rich features
- Enhanced Cisco NX-OS Software designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability
- Open REST APIs with NX-OS help DevOps speed and simplify deployment
- Zero downtime software updates with ISSU
- Drastically reduced provisioning time with POAP
Highly available and efficient design
- Hot-swappable and redundant power-supply units (PSUs) and fans
- Modular software design for distributed multithreaded processing
- Virtual PortChannel (Vpc) for fully utilized bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies
- Prevent network bottlenecks, increase resiliency, and add capacity with 64-way Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) routing
Simplified operations
- PowerOn Auto Provisioning (POAP) and PXE for touchless bootup and configuration of the switch, drastically reducing provisioning time
- Real-time network event detection, onboard automation and remote operation with Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python scripting
Scalable Monitoring
- Network management system (NMS) support with Cisco Data Center Network Manager
- Monitoring and troubleshooting control-plane traffic with built-in EtherAnalyzer
- Advanced real-time buffer monitoring
Specifications at a Glance
- 2 rack unit (RU)
- 42 MB dynamic buffer allocation
- 64 X 10/25/40/50, and 100-Gbps connectivity
- 16 fixed MACsec enabled ports
- 12.8 -Tbps switching capacity
- Up to 4.3 billion packets per second (bpps)