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 new 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 and small. With Catalyst 9300 switches, you choose how you want to manage your network - on-premise, virtual or from the cloud.
The many industry's first include:
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
with 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, bringing stackable high-speed fiber to the access.
Highest Multigigabit Ports:
With standalone and Stackwise-1T, Catalyst 9300X models enable 48 mGig ports in standalone and 448 mGig ports with an 8-member stack.
Highest 90W UPOE+ Density:
Enable your OT/IT needs with up to 36 ports of 90W UPOE+ for standalone or 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-member stack.
Stack Power with Backward Compatibility:
Enable power resiliency with higher power budgets in mixed Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300X stack.
100G IPsec in hardware:
With the new 2.0Sec UADP ASIC, the Catalyst 9300X comes with 100G line rate IPsec to enable various options for new edge connectivity.
Secure Tunnel connectivity:
With the new edge, the C9300X enables secure connections to Secure Internet Gateway, Cloud Service Providers and Site to Site connectivity using IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and speeds up to 100G.
Enhanced Application Hosting:
With 2x capacity and additional RAM, QAT, and 2 x 10G AppGig Ports, multiple Cisco Signed performance savvy applications can be hosted on Catalyst 9300X.
ThousandEyes Enabled:
End-to-end visualization of the path from campus/branch to clouds/DC with Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics (included with Cisco DNA Advantage licenses).
Cisco ASAc Firewall enabled:
Using application hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switches, Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAc) and stateful inspection of traffic in a network can be seamlessly added to existing networks without any additional hardware.
Cloud management and monitoring:
Cloud management and monitoring provides the ability to 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.