Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches

Built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches are Cisco's premier stackable enterprise switching platform designed for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. It is the most widely deployed next-generation switching platform in the industry. Catalyst 9300 Series switches are a fundamental component of Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), Cisco's leading enterprise architecture.

With up to 480 Gbps of bandwidth, the switches are the industry's highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with an unrivaledly flexible uplink architecture. The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first platform specifically optimized for high-density Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2 technologies, setting a new standard for network scale. The switches are also ready to support future technologies, with x86 CPU architecture and larger memory enabling them to host containers and run third-party applications and scripts natively inside the switch.

The basis of software-defined access

Advanced persistent security threats, the exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ubiquitous mobility, and cloud adoption all require a network fabric that combines advanced hardware and software innovations, automating customer networks while protecting and simplifying them. The goal of this network fabric is to grow customer revenue by accelerating the deployment of business services.

SD-Access enables policy-based automation from the edge to the cloud with basic functionality. These include:

● Simplified device deployment

● Unified management of wired and wireless networks

● Network virtualization and segmentation

● Group-based policies

● Scenario-based analysis

Main product features

●Select models that support Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Gen 2 wireless access points on a single switch for maximum wireless scalability

Cisco UADP 2.0 Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable rendering pipeline and micro-engine capabilities and support for template-based configuration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, access control list (ACL), and distribution of Quality of Service (QoS) entries

x86 CPU paired with 8 GB of memory, 16 GB of flash, and an external USB 3.0 SSD hot-plug storage slot for hosting containers (120 GB of storage available with SSD drive option)

●USB 2.0 slot for loading system images and setup configurations

●Up to 480 Gbps of native stackable switching bandwidth

●Optional models with deeper buffers and higher scalability for rich multimedia content delivery applications

●Flexible, dense uplink options with Gigabit, Multi-Gigabit, 10G, 25G, and 40G non-modular or modular uplinks

●Easily transition from 10G to 25G through dual-rate optical modules

Flexible NetFlow

Cisco IOS Software FNF is the next generation of flow visibility technology. The technology offers greater flexibility and scalability, optimizing network infrastructure, reducing operational costs, and improving capacity planning and security incident detection. Catalyst 9300 Series 48-port and 24-port models are capable of collecting up to 64,000 flow entries, and multi-gigabit models are capable of collecting up to 128,000 flow entries.

Application visibility and control

NBAR2: Next-generation Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR2) delivers advanced application classification technology on Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches, accurately identifying up to 1,400 predefined and known application signatures and up to 150 encrypted applications

Multi-Gigabit Ethernet technology

With Cisco Multi-Gigabit Ethernet technology, you can achieve bandwidth speeds from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps over traditional Category 5e/6 cables or higher. This technology allows customers to meet the exponential bandwidth growth brought about by the dramatic evolution of 802.11ac Generation 2 technology (which is destined to be eclipsed by the development of Wi-Fi 6) and the proliferation of new wireless applications without having to replace existing cabling infrastructure. level of growth demand.