N9K-C93180YC-FX3S Nexus 9300 48p 25G SFP28, 6p 100G QSFP28

Cisco N9K-C93180YC-FX3S – Nexus 93180YC-FX3S 48x25G + 6x100G Fixed Switch (NX-OS)

The Cisco Nexus N9K-C93180YC-FX3S is a 1RU fixed switch delivering 48x 1/10/25G SFP28 ports and 6x 40/100G QSFP28 uplinks. Designed for cloud-scale fabrics, enterprise aggregation, and AI/ML workloads, it provides 3.6 Tbps bandwidth and 1.2 bpps forwarding, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable deployments with advanced telemetry and automation.

🔧 Key Specifications

• Ports: 48x 1/10/25G SFP28 + 6x 40/100G QSFP28 uplinks
• Switching Capacity: 3.6 Tbps
• Forwarding Rate: 1.2 bpps
• Buffer: 40 MB on-die packet buffer
• Memory: 32 GB DRAM, 128 GB SSD
• CPU: 4 cores
  
• Encryption: IEEE 802.1ae MACsec capability on all ports ≥1G
• Reliability: Hot-swappable PSUs and fans, N+1 redundancy
• Form Factor: 1RU rack-mountable

🧩 Ideal Use Cases

• Cloud fabrics requiring dense 25G server connectivity with 100G uplinks
• AI/ML clusters leveraging secure, lossless transport with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• Enterprise aggregation with predictable scaling and breakout flexibility
• Service provider deployments needing compact 25G/100G leaf switches

⚙️ Licensing & Expansion

• Runs Cisco NX-OS with support for VXLAN EVPN, Segment Routing (SR/SRv6), and Cisco ACI integration
• Supports programmability via YANG, RESTCONF, NETCONF, and gNMI
• Telemetry and automation enabled through Cisco Nexus Dashboard (Insights, Fabric Controller, Orchestrator)
• Licensing tiers: DCN Essentials, Advantage, and Premier for advanced features