Contents #

1. Built to Reimage Connection, Reinforce Security, and Redefine Experience
2. Product Overview
3. Platform Details
   • Switch Models and Configurations
   • Power Supplies
   • Stacking
   • Fan Modules
4. Platform Benefits
   • Security Features
   • Cloud Security
   • Service Assurance
   • Resiliency and High Availability
   • Deep Buffer Technology
   • Flexible NetFlow
   • Application Visibility and Control
   • QoS
   • Service Discovery
   • Smart Operation
   • Open Standards-Based Fabric
   • Programmability
   • High-Performance IP Routing
   • Audio Video Bridging (AVB)
   • Multigigabit Ethernet Technology
   • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
   • Power Over Ethernet Leadership
5. Specifications
   • Performance and Scalability
   • Bandwidth Specifications
6. Ordering Information

Built to Reimage Connection, Reinforce Security, and Redefine Experience #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches are Cisco’s lead stackable enterprise access switching platform and as part of the Catalyst 9000 family, are built 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.

Key Innovations:

• Up to 1TB of Stacking Bandwidth: With Stackwise-1T, Catalyst 9300 switches are the industry’s highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most flexible uplink architecture.
• Flexible and Dense Uplink Offerings: 100G, 40G, 25G, Multigigabit, 10G, and 1G modular uplinks.
• Mixed Stacking with Backward Compatibility: Stack your Catalyst 9300X fiber switches with Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300X Multigigabit switches.
• Highest Multigigabit Ports: 48 mGig ports in standalone and 448 mGig ports with an 8-member stack.
• Highest 90W UPOE+ Density: Up to 48 ports of 90W UPOE+ for standalone or 384 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-member stack.
• Stack Power with Backward Compatibility: Power resiliency with higher power budgets in mixed Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300X stack.
• 100G IPsec in Hardware: Catalyst 9300X models come with 100G line rate IPsec.
• Secure Tunnel Connectivity: Secure connections to Secure Internet Gateway, Cloud Service Providers, and Site to Site connectivity using IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption.
• Enhanced Application Hosting: 2x capacity and additional RAM, QAT, and 2 x 10G AppGig Ports for hosting applications.
• ThousandEyes Enabled: End-to-end visualization of the path from campus/branch to clouds/DC.
• Cisco ASAc Firewall Enabled: Seamlessly add stateful inspection of traffic in a network using Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAc).
• Cloud Management and Monitoring: Manage or view Catalyst 9300 switch statistics, configuration, and troubleshooting capabilities in Meraki dashboard.
• Investment Protection: Catalyst 9300X redundant fans and power supplies, data stack and StackPower cables are backward compatible with the Catalyst 9300.

Product Overview #

Product Highlights #

• Highest Wireless Scale: Supports Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2 access points.
• Programmable ASIC: Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300L/LM models based on Cisco UADP 2.0 ASIC.
• Advanced CPU Complex: x86 CPU complex with 8-GB memory, 16 GB of flash, and external USB 3.0 SSD pluggable storage slot.
• High Bandwidth: Up to 1 TBps of local stackable switching bandwidth with Catalyst 9300X models.
• Flexible Uplink Offerings: 100G, 40G, 25G, Multigigabit, 10G, and 1G as fixed or modular uplinks.
• PoE Capabilities: Leading PoE capabilities with up to 384 ports of PoE per stack.

Platform Details #

Switch Models and Configurations #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Configurations #

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Power Supplies #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches support dual redundant power supplies. The switches ship with one power supply by default, and the second power supply can be purchased when the switch is ordered or at a later time.

Power Supply Models:

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Stacking #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switch models are designed for stacking switches as a single virtual switch, enabling customers to have a single management plane and control plane for up to 448 access ports.

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Fan Modules #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches also come with three field-replaceable

Fan Modules #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches also come with three field-replaceable fans and support (N+1) redundancy.

Fan Module Description:

Platform Benefits #

Security Features #

• Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA): Identifies malware in encrypted traffic. The visibility this feature affords for threat detection is critical for keeping your network secure at different layers.
• AES-256 MACsec Encryption: The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches support 256-bit and 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), providing the most secure link encryption.
• IPsec Encryption: C9300X models support line-rate IPsec up to 100 Gbps, delivering uncompromised secure connectivity.
• Trustworthy Solutions: Built with Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies, these technologies enable hardware and software authenticity assurance for supply chain trust and strong mitigation against man-in-the-middle attacks.

Cloud Security #

• Umbrella DNS Integration: Cisco Umbrella agent can be hosted directly on Catalyst 9300 Series switches to allow businesses to easily customize their DNS filtering policies at user or group levels.
• Cisco ASAc App Hosting Integration: Simplifies the network design by allowing the ASAc virtual firewall to be hosted on Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches, reducing the need for physical firewall appliances in the network.

Service Assurance #

• Cisco ThousandEyes Integration: Provides visibility beyond your campus perimeter, allowing you to solve issues faster. The Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics license is included with a Cisco Catalyst and Cisco DNA Advantage license.

Resiliency and High Availability #

• StackWise-1T: Cisco Catalyst 9300X SKUs support 1Tbps of stacking bandwidth with StackWise-1T. Up to 8 switches can be configured in a StackWise-1T with the special connector at the back of the switch using dedicated stack cables.
• StackPower: An innovative power interconnect system that allows the power supplies in a stack to be shared as a common resource among all the switches. Cisco StackPower is only supported on the models with modular uplink stack – C9300 and C9300X SKUs.

Deep Buffer Technology #

Cisco Catalyst 9300 higher scale models have a deeper buffer to address the requirements of rich multi-media lossless content delivery and large routing tables in a fixed access solution with a wide range of uplink choices for deployment flexibility.

Flexible NetFlow #

Cisco IOS Software FNF is the next generation in flow visibility technology. It enables optimization of the network infrastructure, reduces operation costs, and improves capacity planning and security incident detection with increased flexibility and scalability.

Application Visibility and Control #

• NBAR2: Next-Generation Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR2) enables advanced application classification techniques, accuracy with up to 1400 predefined and well-known application signatures, and up to 150 encrypted applications.

QoS #

The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series offers Gigabit Ethernet speeds with intelligent services that keep traffic flowing smoothly, even at 10 times the normal network speed. Superior QoS includes granular wireless bandwidth management, 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field classification.

Service Discovery #

• Multicast DNS (mDNS) Gateway: Facilitates sharing of services advertised using the Apple mDNS (Bonjour) protocol across the network. It also allows administrators to create policies defining which services can be seen and accessed by the users in the network.

Smart Operation #

• Simplified Campus Automation: Optimizes the discovery and configuration of devices in your network with a streamlined automation tool.
• Meraki Dashboard Monitoring and Management: Combines the simplicity of the Meraki dashboard with the power of Catalyst 9000 switching.
• WebUI: An embedded GUI-based device-management tool that simplifies device deployment and manageability.

Open Standards-Based Fabric #

The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches support modern fabric technologies such as VXLAN with BGP-EVPN control plane, providing flexibility to build open standards-based fabrics to secure infrastructure, users, and data.

Programmability #

Cisco IOS XE provides open standards-based APIs such as NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, simplifying provisioning and configuration. Integrating Zero Touch Provisioning with various DevOps toolkits drastically reduces the time and resources needed to onboard a device onto your network.

High-Performance IP Routing #

The Cisco Express Forwarding hardware routing architecture delivers high-performance IP routing in Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, supporting a range of IP unicast and multicast routing protocols, including static, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and IS-ISv4.

Audio Video Bridging (AVB) #

Starting with Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.8, the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series supports the IEEE 802.1 AVB standard, ensuring highly reliable delivery of low-latency, time-synchronized audio and video streaming services through Layer 2 Ethernet networks.

Multigigabit Ethernet Technology #

Cisco Multigigabit Ethernet technology allows you to achieve bandwidth speeds from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps over traditional Category 5e/6 cabling or above, addressing the need for exponential increases in bandwidth without having to replace current cabling infrastructure.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) #

The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches support MPLS, which combines the performance and capabilities of Layer 2 switching with the scalability of Layer 3 routing. MPLS support includes MPLS L3 VPN, VPLS, EoMPLS, and MPLS over GRE.

Power Over Ethernet Leadership #

Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE and Cisco UPOE+) extends the IEEE PoE+ standard, facilitating the delivery of network power to a broad range of devices requiring higher power, including virtual desktop terminals, IP turrets, compact switches, and more.

Specifications #

Performance and Scalability #

Bandwidth Specifications #

Ordering Information #