Features and capabilities: 
- The Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch offers a comprehensive feature set, high resiliency, and a broad range of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet line cards. It can meet the most demanding requirements of enterprise, service provider, and cloud data centers.
Cisco ACI support
- Designed to support the Cisco next-generation data center based on Cisco ACI
Programmability
- Open API to manage the switch through remote-procedure calls (JavaScript Object Notation or XML) over HTTP or HTTPS 
- Automated configuration through Linux shell scripts 
- Support for customer applications through a Linux container environment 
High availability
- Software patching for continued operations 
- Redundant and hot-swappable supervisors, system controllers, power supplies, and fan trays 
- Mix of third-party and Cisco application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for improved reliability 
Energy efficiency
- Design without a midplane to optimize front-to-back airflow and reduce power consumption 
- Optimized design with fewer ASICs, resulting in lower energy use 
- Efficient power supplies that are rated at 80 Plus Platinum 
Investment protection
- 40 Gb  for reuse of existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet multimode cabling plant for 40 Gigabit Ethernet 
- Support for Cisco NX-OS and Cisco ACI modes of operation 
- Support for Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders 
- Form factor : 21 RU 
- Line card slots	: 16 
- Supervisor slots : 2 
- Fabric module slots : 6 
- ACI support	:Yes 
- Bandwidth per slot (Tbps) : 	3.84 
- Bandwidth per system (Tbps) : 	60 
- Maximum number of 1/10G BASE-T ports : 	768 
- Maximum number of 10 GE ports	: 2304 
- Maximum number of 40 GE ports : 	576 
- Maximum number of 100GE ports : 	576 
- Airflow	 : Front to back 
- Power supplies (3-kW AC/DC) : Up to 10 
- Fan trays	: 3