The Cisco® Catalyst® 8200 Series Edge Platforms, equipped with Cisco IOS® XE SD-WAN software, provide secure, cloud-scale SD-WAN and SD-Routing solutions tailored for small branch locations. These platforms are specifically designed for high performance and integrated SD-WAN services, offering the flexibility to deliver both security and networking services from the cloud or on-premises.
With a diverse range of interface options and backward compatibility with existing WAN, LAN, and voice modules, the Catalyst 8200 Series ensures seamless integration into your network infrastructure. Powered by Cisco IOS XE—a fully programmable software architecture with API support—these platforms enable large-scale automation in SD-WAN and SD-Routing deployments, facilitating zero-touch IT capabilities while transitioning workloads to the cloud.
The Catalyst 8200 Series is built on the Trustworthy Solutions 2.0 framework, ensuring robust security against threats and vulnerabilities through advanced integrity verification and threat remediation.
Key Features
Targeted for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The 8200 Series is ideal for small and medium enterprise branch offices, providing excellent price/performance with integrated SD-WAN and SD-Routing services.
The Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms offer a comprehensive set of features and benefits to address diverse networking needs with a focus on adaptability, performance, security, and sustainability. Here’s a summary of the key benefits:
Dynamic Core Allocation
– Tailor the multicore resources to fit specific business needs with options for service plane heavy mode and data plane heavy core allocation.
– Achieve a balance between throughput and containerized services or prioritize high traffic throughput based on business requirements.
Accelerated Services with Cisco Software-Defined WAN
– Dynamically route traffic across the “best” link using Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, ensuring reliable and secure connectivity.
– Gain control over application performance, bandwidth usage, data privacy, and WAN link availability, crucial for mission-critical business operations.
SD-Routing
– Simplify traditional routing deployments and workflows by managing Cisco routing devices through Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
– Enhance operational simplicity, agility, and cost-efficiency by leveraging unified management for Catalyst SD-WAN and routing deployments.
Application Performance Optimization
– Ensure SD-WAN networks meet Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and maintain strong performance, leveraging features like TCP optimization, Forward Error Correction (FEC), and packet duplication.
Multilayer Security
– Move traditional WAN networks into an agile, software-defined WAN with integrated security, protecting against web attacks and optimizing branch workloads for improved performance.
Application Visibility
– Gain expanded visibility into network underlay, proactive monitoring of SD-WAN overlay, and performance measurement of SaaS applications.
– Lower Mean Time to Identification of Issues (MTTI) and accelerate resolution time with granular visibility.
Unified Communications
– Integrate rich voice services into both SD-WAN and traditional Cisco IOS XE software feature stacks.
– Support a wide range of traditional voice use cases, providing flexibility and reducing capital and operational expenditures.
Cloud-Native Agility with a Programmable Software Architecture
– Utilize a feature-rich traditional Cisco IOS XE routing stack and a fully programmable software architecture with API support for agility and flexibility.
Mobility
– Leverage high-speed Cat18 LTE and 5G networks for improved throughput, offering feasible wireless WAN solutions for primary transport use cases.
– Choose integrated pluggable modules or external Cellular Gateways based on cellular coverage for high-availability Active-Active cellular WAN solutions.
Interface Flexibility
– Benefit from a flexible single-box solution with both switching and routing, offering a wide range of NIM-based Ethernet modules for a scalable combination of switched L2 ports and routed L3 ports.
– Gain unprecedented flexibility through the introduction of LANWAN modules, supporting both Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity with higher density of Layer 3 ports.
Sustainability
– Designed with sustainability in mind, featuring highly efficient power supplies, elimination of plastic use, and common form factors for shared tooling and accessories.
– Standardization on integration of features to a single, power-effective System on a Chip (SoC) architecture across the platform portfolio, offering dynamic power management and significant energy savings.
Overall, the Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms offer a wide range of features and benefits designed to address modern networking challenges while emphasizing performance, security, flexibility, and sustainability.
Product highlights
Product feature
Benefits and description
Multicore processors
● C8200-1N-4T uses an 8-core CPU with 8 GB DRAM memory default
● C8200L-1N-4T uses a 4-core CPU with 4 GB DRAM memory default
● High-performance multicore processors support high-speed WAN connections
● Dynamic core allocation architecture will repurpose unused cores into forwarding entities as per the user’s configuration
Embedded IPsec VPN hardware acceleration
● C8200-1N-4T enables up to 1 Gbps IPsec traffic
● C8200L-1N-4T enables up to 500 Mbps IPsec traffic
● Increases scalability for IPsec throughput requirements
● SSL and crypto hardware acceleration
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports
● Provides four built-in Ethernet WAN ports
● Two Ethernet ports are Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and two are RJ45 ports, enabling fiber as well as copper connectivity
DRAM
● C8200-1N-4T ships with 8 GB DRAM
● C8200L-1N-4T ships with 4 GB DRAM
● C8200-1N-4T can be upgraded to 16 GB and 32 GB DRAM for higher scale and performance
● C8200L-1N-4T can be upgraded to 8GB, 16 GB and 32 GB DRAM for higher scale and performance
Flash memory support
● Both models have an integrated onboard 8-GB flash which is not upgradable. M.2 storage provides flash upgrade options
M.2 storage
● The C8200-1N-4T is shipped with default 16G M.2 storage and can be upgraded to 32G M.2 USB and 600G M.2 Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Storage
● The C8200L-1N-4T does not ship with a default M.2 storage but can be upgraded to 16G, 32G USB and to 600G M.2 Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Storage
Power supply
● Both models use an internal, fixed AC power supply
● Power over Ethernet (PoE) is available as an option
● PoE ports added in the Network Interface Module (NIM) slot will require an additional external PoE power supply
Modularity and form factor
● 1-Rack Unit (1RU) form factor
● Supports NIM and Pluggable Interface Module (PIM) slots
Integrated security
● Hardware-anchored Secure Boot and Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play to verify the identity of the hardware and software
Platform specifications
Model
Description
1G port density
Slots
Memory (DRAM) default
Storage (M.2 SSD) default
C8200-1N-4T
C8200 1RU w/ 1 NIM slot and 4x 1 Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports
4
1 NIM
1 PIM
8 GB
16 GB
C8200L-1N-4T
C8200L 1RU w/ 1 NIM slot and 4x 1 Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports
4
1 NIM
1 PIM
4 GB
No
Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series SD-WAN performance
Feature
C8200-1N-4T
C8200L-1N-4T
SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (1400Bytes)
Up to 1Gbps
Up to 500Mbps
SD-WAN IPsec Throughput with IQDF** (1400Bytes)
Up to 1Gbps
Up to 460Mbps
SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (IMIX*)
900Mbps
400Mbps
SD-WAN IPsec Throughput with IQDF** (IMIX*)
850Mbps
300Mbps
SD-WAN Overlay Tunnels scale
2500
1500
Cisco Catalyst 8200-1N-4T SD-WAN, Multi-layer security performance use cases
QoS, FEC, Class of Service (CoS) marking, Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED), Hierarchical QoS, PBR, NBAR, SD-AVC, per-tunnel QoS, Cloud OnRamp for SaaS, Enhanced Office 365 traffic steering, direct access, FNF
Cryptographic algorithms
Encryption: AES-256 (in CBC and GCM modes), Internet Key Exchange (IKE), Cisco Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
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