N9K-C9516 – Cisco Nexus 9500 Series
Cisco Nexus 9516 chassis with 16 line card slots (N9K-C9516) The Cisco Nexus 9516 switch provides a comprehensive feature set, high flexibility, and a wide range of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet line cards. It can meet the high requirements of enterprises, service providers, and cloud data centers.
Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches run in one of two modes-Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) or Cisco NX-OS. In the Cisco ACI mode, these switches provide a complete, policy-based fully automated architecture that can design and manage data center structures. In Cisco NX-OS mode, these switches provide the use of basic layer 2/3 technology and modern technologies such as VXLAN and have a border gateway protocol plane Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN) control plane, segment routing, and multi-protocol labels Switching (MPLS) and automation through NX-API.
N9K-C9516 Specification
Cisco Nexus 9516 Chassis with 16 linecard slots
The Accessories
Table 2 shows the supported accessories.
| Model | Description |
| N9K-SUP-B+ | Nexus 9500 6-Core/12-Thread Supervisor |
| N9K-SC-A | Nexus 9500 System Controller |
| N9K-C9516-FAN | Fan Tray for Cisco Nexus 9516 Chassis |
| N9K-PAC-3000W-B | Cisco Nexus 9500 3000W 200V to 240V AC PS, Port-Side Intake |
| N9K-PUV-3000W-B | Cisco Nexus 9500 3000W 200V to 277V AC or 240V to 380V DC Universal high voltage AC/DC PS, Port-Side Intake |
| N9K-PDC-3000W-B | Cisco Nexus 9500 3000W -48V-60V DC PS, Port-Side Intake |
