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cisco Nexus 6000 Nexus 6001P vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 6001P is a high-density 1U datacenter switch offering 48 fixed ports of 1G/10G SFP+ and 4 fixed ports of 40G QSFP+. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX is an enterprise 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC.

cisco Nexus 6000 Nexus 6001Pcisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX
Brandciscocisco
Statusend-of-saleend-of-sale
ReleasedApr 2013Jun 2017
Form factor1U fixed switch1U fixed switch
Downlink ports48x 1G/10GbE SFP+ ports48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports
Uplink ports4x 40GbE QSFP+ ports6x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports
Switching capacity1.28 Tbps / 952 Mpps forwarding performance3.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth
Form factor1U rack mount with dual redundant power and fans—
FeaturesLayer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, full FCoE transit, vPC, and VXLAN—
Forwarding rate—Up to 2.6 Bpps
Storage networking—Supports native Fibre Channel (16G/32G) and FCoE on downlink ports
Operating modes—Cisco NX-OS Mode or Cisco ACI Leaf Mode

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