Cisco Nexus 9300, 9500, and the new 9800 platform switches support Cisco ACI. Organizations can use them as spine or leaf switches to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems-management approach.
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches include modular and fixed 1 to 400 Gigabit Ethernet, and now 800 Gigabit Ethernet, switch configurations that are designed to operate either in NX-OS mode for compatibility and consistency with the current Cisco Nexus switches (using Cisco NX-OS Software) or in ACI mode to take full advantage of Cisco ACI application-policy-based services and infrastructure automation features. This dual-function capability provides customers with investment protection and ease of migration to Cisco ACI through a software upgrade.
