N9K-C9516
Cisco Nexus 9516 Chassis with 16 line card slots
Cisco Nexus 9500
Positioning
Inherited from the Nexus 9500 family — positioning is family-scoped in the graph
DC modular chassis — line cards, high-density aggregation and core
Price band: Premium
Specifications sourced from Cisco's published datasheets and product documentation.
Identity
What it is and where it sits in the range
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product family
- Nexus 9500
- Form factor
- modular
- Rack units
- 21
- Launch date
- 2014-03
- Supported OS
- NX-OS, ACI
Ports and throughput
Port counts, speeds and forwarding capacity
- Network module slots
- 0
Alternatives
Products that do the same job: one class up, the same class, or one class down. Same vendor first.
Other vendors' modular chassis do not publish a line-card slot count, so none is compared.
Power
PoE, supplies and redundancy
- PoE supported
- No
- PSU slots
- 10
- Default PSU
- N9K-PAC-3000W-B
- PSU redundancy modes
- n+1, combined, no_redundancy
Scale and performance
Table sizes, latency and stacking limits
- Latency class
- store-forward
- Buffer class
- standard
- Stacking supported
- No
Licence tiers
Tiers defined for this family
Advantage · Essentials · Premier
Defined for the Nexus 9500 family. SKUit selects the tier and term matching the features you choose when it builds the BOM.
Parts and modules
Published parts that fit this platform, each with its own page
- Line cards (2)
- Supervisors (2)
- Fabric modules (2)
- Network modules (1)
- Power supplies (4)
- Fan trays (2)
- Blank panels (2)
- Rack-mount kits (2)
- Accessories (1)
Other Nexus 9500 platforms
Same family, different port counts
About this data
Where the specifications on this page come from
Where does the N9K-C9516 data come from?
The N9K-C9516 specifications on this page are sourced from Cisco's published datasheets and product documentation. SKUit extracts and normalises those values into its product catalog, the same data its BOM builder uses. This page summarises them; it is not Cisco's datasheet, and the original documents are published by Cisco.
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