Download Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch Datasheet (PDF)

cisco catalyst 9300 datasheet - Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series is the next generation of the industry’s most widely deployed stackable switching platform. Built for security, IoT, and the cloud, these network switches form the foundation for Cisco’s Software-Defined Access, their leading enterprise architecture.

The Catalyst 9300 Series is designed for Cisco StackWise virtual technology, providing flexible deployment with support for nonstop forwarding with stateful switchover (NSF/SSO), for the most resilient architecture in a stackable sub-50-ms solution.

The highly resilient and efficient power architecture features Cisco StackPower, which delivers high-density Cisco Universal Power Over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) ports.

The switches are based on the Cisco Unified Access Data Plane 2.0 (UADP) 2.0 architecture which not only protects your investment but also allows a larger scale and higher throughput.
A modern operating system, open CiscoIOS XE with programmability offers advancedsecurity capabilities and Internet of Things (IoT) convergence.

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches: Key Features and Benefits

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches has 16 common models. Each of them supports Network Essentials or Network Advantage IOS.

• Highest wireless scale with Wave 2 access points supported on a single switch with select models
• UADP 2.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable pipeline and microengine capabilities, along with template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries.
• x86 CPU complex with 8-GB memory, and 16 GB of flash and external USB 3.0 SSD pluggable storage slot to host containers
• USB 2.0 slot to load system images and set configurations
• Up to 480 Gbps of local stackable switching bandwidth
• Flexible and dense uplink offerings with 1G, Multigigabit, 10G, 25G, and40G
• Flexible downlink options with 1G and Multigigabit links
• Leading PoE capabilities with up to 384 ports of PoE per stack, 60W Cisco UPOE, and PoE+
• Intelligent Power Management with Cisco StackPower technology, providing power stacking among members for power redundancy
• Line-rate, hardware-based Flexible NetFlow (FNF), delivering flow collection of up to 64,000 flows
• IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks
• Dual-stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations, for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
• IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) built in to provide a better audio and video experience through improved time synchronization and QoS
• Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with sub-microsecond accuracy making it suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency over network
• Cisco IOS XE, a modern operating system for the enterprise with support for model-driven programmability including NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting, and patching for critical bug fixes. The OS also has built-in defenses to protect against runtime attacks
• SD-Access:The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches form the foundational building block for SD-Access, Cisco’s lead enterprise architecture:
• (1) Policy-based automation from edge to cloud
• (2) Simplified segmentation and micro-segmentation, with predictable performance and scalability 
• (3) Automation through the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM)
• (4) Policy handled through the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• (5) Network assurance provided through the Network Data Platform
• (6) Faster launch of new business services and significantly improved issue resolution time
• Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering to ease new branch or campus device rollouts or updates to an existing network
• Advanced security
• (1) Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA): You benefit from the power of machine learning to identify and take actions toward threats or anomalies in your network, including malware detection in encrypted traffic (without decryption) anddistributed anomaly detection
• (2) Support for AES-256 with the powerful MACsec 256-bit encryption algorithm available on all models
• (3) Trustworthy systems: Hardware anchored Secure Boot and Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play, to verify the identity of the hardware and software

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Packaging

The Catalyst 9300 Series introduces new packaging that includes vastly simplified base network packages (Network Essentials and Network Advantage) included with the hardware, and term-based software packages (Cisco DNA Essentials, Cisco DNA Advantage) as mandatory add-ons.

In addition to on-box capabilities, the Cisco DNA packages unlock additional functionality in Cisco DNA Center (in APIC-EM), enabling controller-based software-defined automation in your network.License consumption is further simplified with the following 2 package combinations:

1. Essentials:This consists of Perpetual Network Essentials (included with the hardware) and a term-based (3-, 5-, or 7-year) Cisco DNA Essentials package.
2. Advantage:This consists of Perpetual Network Advantage (included with thehardware) and a term-based (3-, 5-, or7-year) Cisco DNA Advantage package.

Note: It is not required to deploy Cisco DNA Center just to use one of the above packages. Refer to http://switching.cisco.com/faqs/ng for additional details about the Essentials and Advantage packages.

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Overview

Overview and Review of the Catalyst 9300 and all its great features. UPoE, ETA, mGig, NBAR, MACsec, SD-Access, Perpetual PoE, Fast PoE, Stacking, Blue Beacon Light, Netflow.

For more detail information you can download Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch Datasheet (PDF) here.