Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Data Sheet - Product Overview Features

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Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches are Cisco’s lead stackable enterprise switching platform built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. The platform supports Software-Defined Access as a foundational building block for SD-Access, offering high-density stacking bandwidth up to 480 Gbps, flexible uplinks, and optimization for high-density Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2. It includes x86 CPU architecture, increased memory for container hosting, resilient StackWise and StackPower technologies, and advanced security with Cisco IOS XE programmability. Cisco DNA software provides unified management, policy-based automation, network virtualization, segmentation, and context-based analytics, complemented by flexible licensing and update access via Software Support Services. Key features cover UADP 2.0 programmable pipeline, extensive uplink/downlink options, high PoE and UPOE capacity, Flexible NetFlow, and IPv6 hardware support for scalable, secure enterprise networks.

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Data sheet Cisco public Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches Contents Built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud 3 Product overview: Features 4 Platform details 6 Platform benefits 14 Software requirements 20 Licensing 21 Specifications 23 Warranty 40 Cisco environmental sustainability 41 Cisco Services 42 Ordering information 42 Cisco Capital 49 Document history 50 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 SoftwareDefined 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 astackable (sub-50-ms) solution. The highly resilient and efficient power architecture features Cisco StackPower®, which delivers high-density Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), 60W Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) and 90W Cisco UPOE+© 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 datacenter 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

FAQs

What is the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switch designed for?

It is built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud, and serves as a foundational stackable enterprise switching platform for SD-Access.

How does the switch support software-defined access (SD-Access)?

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches form a foundational building block for SD-Access, enabling policy-based automation from edge to cloud when combined with Cisco DNA.

What key hardware capabilities are highlighted in the data sheet features?

The platform includes Cisco UADP 2.0 with a programmable pipeline, an x86 CPU with 8‑GB memory and pluggable storage for hosting containers, high-density stacking bandwidth up to 480 Gbps, and extensive PoE+/UPOE power options.

Nov 1, 2026

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