Built to reimage connection, reinforce securityand redefine experience
Cisco®Catalyst®9300 Series switches are Cisco's lead stackable enterpriseaccessswitching platformand as part of the Catalyst 9000 family, are build to transform your network to handle a hybrid world where the workplace is anywhere, endpoints could be anything, and applications are hosted all over the place.
The Catalyst 9300 Series, including the new Catalyst 9300X models, continues to shape the future with continued innovation that helps you reimagine connections, reinforce security and redefine the experience for your hybrid workforce big and small.
The many industry'sfirst include:
- Up to 1TB of stacking bandwidth: With Stackwise-1T, Catalyst 9300switches are the industry's highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most flexible uplink architecture
- Flexible and dense uplink offeringswith 100G, 40G, 25G, Multigigabit, 10G, and 1G modular uplinks
- Mixed Stacking with Backward Compatibility -Stack your Catalyst 9300X fiber switches with Catalyst 9300and Catalyst 9300X Multigigabit switches, bringingstackable high-speed fiber to the access
- Highest Multigigabit Ports:With standalone and Stackwise-1T,Catalyst 9300X models enable 48 mGig ports in standalone and 448 mGig ports with an 8-member stack
- Highest 90W UPOE®+ Density: Enable your OT/IT needs with up to 36 ports of 90W UPOE+ for standalone or 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with a 8-member stack.
- StackPower with Backward Compatibility: Enable power resiliency with higher power budgets in mixed Catalyst 9300and Catalyst 9300X stack.
- 100G IPsec in hardware: With the new 2.0Sec UADP ASIC, the Catalyst 9300X comes with 100G line rate IPsecto enable various options for new edge connectivity
- Secure Tunnel connectivity: With the new edge, the C9300X enables secureconnections to Secure Internet Gateway, Cloud Service Providers and Site to Site connectivity using IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and speeds up to 100G.
- Enhanced Application Hosting: With 2x capacity and additional RAM, QAT, and 2 x 10G AppGig Ports, multiple Cisco Signed performance savvy applications can be hosted on Catalyst 9300X
- ThousandEyes Enabled:End-to-end visualization of the path from campus/branch to clouds/DC with Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics (included with Cisco DNA Advantage licenses)
- Investment Protection: Catalyst 9300X redundant fansandpower supplies, data stack and StackPower cables are backward compatible with the Catalyst 9300
The Foundation of Software-Defined access
Advanced persistent security threats. The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Mobility everywhere. Cloud adoption. All of these require a network fabric that integrates advanced hardware and software innovations to automate, secure, and simplify customer networks. The goal of this network fabric is to enable customer revenue growth by accelerating the rollout of business services. The Cisco Digital Network Architecture (Cisco DNA) with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) is the network fabric that powers business. It is an open and extensible, software-driven architecture that accelerates and simplifies your enterprise network operations. The programmable architecture frees your IT staff from timeconsuming, repetitive network configuration tasks so they can focus instead on innovation that positively transforms your business. SD-Access enables policy-based automation from edge to cloud with foundational capabilities. These include:
- Simplified device deployment
- Flexible downlink options with 25G, 10G and 1G Copper and Fiber as well as the densest Multigigabit links
- Easy transition from 40G to 100G and 10G to 25G with dual-rate optics
- Flexible and dense uplink offerings with 100G, 40G, 25G, Multigigabit, 10G, and 1G as fixed or modular uplinks
- Deeper buffer and higher scale model options for rich multi-media content delivery applications
- Up to 1 TBps of local stackable switching bandwidth with Catalyst 9300X models
- USB 2.0 slot to load system images and set configurations
- x86 CPU complex with 8-GB memory, and 16 GB of flash and external USB 3.0 SSD pluggable storage slot (delivering up to 240GB of storage with an option SSD drive) to host containers. C9300X models support 16GB of memory
- Catalyst 9300X models are based on UADP 2.0sec ASIC which adds line rate support for Crypto, including 100G hardware-based IPsec
- Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300L/LM models are based on the Cisco UADP 2.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable pipeline and microengine capabilities, along with templatebased, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries
- Highest wireless scale for Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2 access points supported on a single switch with select models
