Cisco N9K-C93180YC-EX, also known as Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX, belongs to the Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series fixed Cisco Nexus 9000 platform based on Cisco Cloud Scale technology. It is designed for cost-effective cloud-scale deployments, growing endpoint density, cloud services, virtualized data centers and highly scalable enterprise or service provider networks. The N9K-C93180YC-EX is a 1RU data center switch with 48 x 1/10/25-Gbps SFP28 fiber ports and 6 x 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 uplink ports.

The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX supports less than 1 microsecond latency, 3.6Tbps bandwidth and over 2.6 billion packets per second performance. Its 48 downlink ports can operate as 1G, 10G or 25G ports, while the uplink ports support flexible 40G and 100G connectivity. The switch can operate in standard Cisco NX-OS mode or support Cisco ACI mode depending on software and license configuration. It is suitable for data center leaf-spine architecture, VXLAN EVPN fabrics, server access, aggregation, enterprise cloud networks, telecom network expansion and Cisco Nexus 9000 replacement projects.