Built for
security, IoT, mobility, and cloud
The Cisco® Catalyst® 9300
Series switches are Cisco's lead stackable enterprise switching platform built
for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. They are the next generation of the
industry's most widely deployed switching platform. Catalyst 9300 Series
switches form the foundational building block for Software-Defined Access
(SD-Access), Cisco's lead enterprise architecture. At up to 480 Gbps, they are
the industry's highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most
flexible uplink architecture. The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first optimized
platform for high-density Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave2. It sets new maximums for
network scale. These switches are also ready for the future, with an x86 CPU
architecture and more memory, enabling them to host containers and run
third-party applications and scripts natively within the switch.
The Catalyst 9300 Series is designed for Cisco StackWise® 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,
Cisco IOS® XE
with programmability offers advanced security capabilities and Internet of
Things (IoT) convergence.
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 time-consuming, 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
- Unified management of
wired and wireless networks
- Network virtualization
and segmentation
- Group-based policies
- Context-based analytics
Cisco DNA
software
Cisco DNA Software offers a valuable and flexible way to buy software for the
access, WAN, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle,
Cisco DNA Software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and
infrastructure software easier. Cisco DNA Software provides:
- Flexible licensing models
to smoothly distribute customers' software spending over time
- Investment protection for
software purchases through software services-enabled license portability
- Access to updates,
upgrades, and new technology from Cisco through Cisco®Software
Support Services (SWSS)
- Lower cost of entry with
the new Cisco DNA Subscription for Switching model
