Cisco Nexus® 9508 Sets High Performance Low Latency Record Of Under 3.5 microseconds Spine Switch
While most companies announce products long before first customer ship with long road maps of when product features are available, Cisco's Nexus® 9508 is ready now. The independent and open industry Lippis/Ixia team test the Nexus® 9508 at 288-40GbE capacity for layer 3 unicast plus IP multicast latency and congestion management via RFC 2544, 3918 and 2889 respectively. This test is a new industry record as no other data center switch has been tested at 288-40GbE ports. What are really impressive are the results and the engineering achievement of the Cisco team. I'm joined with Bradley Wong; Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing Cisco as we review the Cisco Nexus® 9508 test methodologies and results.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds
Lippis Intro/Analysis @ : 00:10 sec
Question 1 @ 2:19 sec: Brad, Lets start with a description of the Nexus 9508 and the type of networking environments and architectures its been designed to accommodate.
Question 2 @ 3:20 sec: The Test configuration and set up described.
Question 3 @ 5:03 sec: Nick: We tested the Nexus 9508 for IP unicast and Multicast latency and found that the Nexus 9508 is the fastest modular data center switch in the industry
Question 4 @ 7:11 sec: Nick: To understand how the Nexus 9508 behaves during periods of congestion we configured a 288-port 40GbE congestion test to stress the Nexus 9508 switch processing and buffer architecture's congestion management subsystems.
Question 4 @ 8:32 sec The Nexus 9508 offered the lowest latency and highest throughput for layer 3 unicast and IP Multicast traffic and one of the most efficient congestion management behavior. At 288-40GbE ports, the Nexus 9508 is the highest density core switch tested in the Lippis/Ixia tests to date.
Question 4 @ 9:10 sec Brad, with the above test results, and product attributes what are the biggest use cases that Cisco engineers designed the Nexus 9508 to address?