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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.

The Catalyst 9300 Series, including the Catalyst 9300X models, continues to shape the future with continued innovation that helps you reimagine connections, reinforce security and redefine the experience for your hybrid workforce, big or small. With Catalyst 9300 Series switches, you choose how you want to manage your network – on-premises, virtual, or from the cloud.

The many industry firsts of the Catalyst 9300 Series include:

● Up to 1 TB of stacking bandwidth: With Cisco StackWise-1T, Catalyst 9300 Series switches are the industry’s highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most flexible uplink architecture.

● Flexible and dense uplink offerings with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (G), 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, bringing stackable high-speed fiber to the access layer.

● Highest number of Multigigabit ports: With standalone and StackWise-1T, Catalyst 9300X models enable 48 Multigigabit ports in standalone mode and 448 Multigigabit ports with an 8-member stack.

● Highest 90W UPOE+ density: Enable your OT/IT needs with up to 48 ports of 90W Cisco UPOE+ in standalone mode or 384 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-member stack.

● StackPower with backward compatibility: Enable power resiliency with higher power budgets in a mixed Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300X stack.

● 100G IPsec in hardware: Built on the Cisco® Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) 2.0sec Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), the Catalyst 9300X models come with 100G line-rate IPsec to enable various options for new edge connectivity.

● Secure tunnel connectivity: With the new edge, the Catalyst 9300X enables secure connections to secure internet gateways, cloud service providers, and site-to-site connectivity using IPsec tunnels with 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard encryption (AES-256) and speeds up to 100G.

● Enhanced application hosting: With twice the capacity and additional RAM, Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and 2x 10G AppGig ports, the Catalyst 9300X models can host multiple Cisco Signed performance-savvy applications.

● ThousandEyes enabled: Enable end-to-end visualization of the path from campus/branch to clouds/data center with Cisco ThousandEyes® Network and Application Synthetics (included with Cisco DNA Advantage licenses).

● Cisco ASAc firewall enabled: Using application hosting, Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAc) and stateful inspection of traffic can be seamlessly added to existing networks without any additional hardware.

● Cloud management: Migrate Catalyst 9300 Series switches to the Cisco Meraki® dashboard to unlock centralized management and monitoring of devices while retaining advanced features like a cloud-hosted command-line interface terminal. Learn more.

● Investment protection: Catalyst 9300X redundant fans and power supplies, data stack, and StackPower cables are backward compatible with the Catalyst 9300 Series.

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 Networking Cloud 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 that include:

● Simplified device deployment

● Unified management of wired and wireless networks

● Network virtualization and segmentation

● Group-based policies

● Context-based analytics

Cloud Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) fabric capabilities are supported for Cisco Catalyst 9300/X models being managed from the Meraki dashboard. Learn more about cloud management and cloud fabric here.

Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software

Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software subscriptions offer a valuable and flexible way to buy software for the access layer, WAN, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier. Cisco 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 CiscoSoftware Support Service (SWSS).

● Lower cost of entry with the new Cisco Catalyst Software Subscription for Switching support model.

● Choose what management model works best for you – on-premises, virtual, or in the cloud.

● Access to end-to-end network visibility with Cisco Spaces, service assurance through Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics, and Cisco ASAc firewall (with Cisco Catalyst and Cisco DNA Advantage licenses).

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches let you manage your entire switching structure as a single, converged component. With one management system, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and one policy for wired and wireless networks, they offer an efficient way to provide more secure access.