Cisco N9K-C93180LC-EX, also known as Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX, is part of the Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 platform based on Cisco Cloud Scale technology. The platform is designed for cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, increased endpoint density, cloud services, highly scalable data centers and growing enterprise networks. The N9K-C93180LC-EX is a 1RU 50-Gbps-capable data center switch with flexible 40G, 50G and 100G connectivity.

The Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX supports up to 32 x 40/50-Gbps QSFP+ ports or up to 18 x 100-Gbps QSFP28 ports, and can support up to 72 x 10-Gbps ports using breakout cables depending on optics, templates and software support. It delivers 3.6Tbps bandwidth and over 2.6 billion packets per second performance. The switch supports Cisco NX-OS mode for standard Nexus environments and Cisco ACI mode depending on software image and license. It is suitable for data center aggregation, spine switching, high-speed Ethernet migration, VXLAN EVPN fabrics, Cisco ACI deployments, enterprise cloud networks and telecom network expansion.