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 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.

• Highest wireless scale for Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2 access points supported on a single switch with select models
• Cisco UADP 2.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable pipeline and microengine capabilities, along with template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries
• x86 CPU complex with 8-GB memory, and 16 GB of flash and external USB 3.0 SSD pluggable storage slot (delivering 120GB of storage with an option SSD drive) to host containers
• USB 2.0 slot to load system images and set configurations
• Up to 480 Gbps of local stackable switching bandwidth
• Deeper buffer and higher scale model options for rich multi-media content delivery applications
• Flexible and dense uplink offerings with 1G, Multigigabit, 10G, 25G, and 40G in the form of fixed or modular uplinks
• Easy transition from 10G to 25G with dual-rate optics
• Flexible downlink options with 1G Copper and Fiber as well as Multigigabit links
• Leading PoE capabilities with up to 384 ports of PoE per stack, PoE+, and high density IEEE 802.3bt - 60W UPOE, and 90W Cisco UPOE+^©
• Intelligent Power Management with Cisco StackPower technology, providing power stacking among members for power redundancy
• Line-rate, hardware-based Flexible NetFlow (FNF), delivering flow collection of up to 64,000 flows
• IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks
• Dual-stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations, for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
• IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) built in to provide a better audio and video experience through improved time synchronization and QoS
• Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with sub-microsecond accuracy making it suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency over network
• Cisco IOS XE, a modern operating system for the enterprise with support for model-driven programmability including NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting, and patching for critical bug fixes. The OS also has built-in defenses to protect against runtime attacks
• SD-Access:Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches form the foundational building block for SD-Access, Cisco’s lead enterprise architecture:

◦     Policy-based automation from edge to cloud

◦     Simplified segmentation and micro-segmentation, with predictable performance and scalability

◦     Automation through Cisco DNA Center

◦     Policy handled through the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

◦     Network assurance provided through the Cisco DNA Center

◦     Faster launch of new business services and significantly improved issue resolution time

• SD-Access Embedded Wireless: The Cisco Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package can be installed on Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches to enable wireless controller functionality for distributed branches and small campuses. Once installed, the Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller running on a Catalyst 9300 Series switch can support up to 200 APs and 4000 Clients (C9300L supports 50 APs / 1000 Clients). A maximum two wireless controllers can be enabled per site on two different Catalyst 9300 Series switches which will increase to scale up to 400 APs and 8000 Wireless Clients (C9300L: 100 APs / 2000 Clients). The Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package will enable wireless functionality only for SD-Access deployments with two supported topologies:

◦     The Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package can be enabled on Catalyst 9300 Series switches functioning as Co-Located Border and Control Plane

◦     C9800 Wireless Software Package can be enabled on Catalyst 9300 Series switches functioning as Fabric in a Box

• Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering to ease new branch or campus device rollouts or updates to an existing network
• Advanced security

◦     Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA): You benefit from the power of machine learning to identify and take actions toward threats or anomalies in your network, including malware detection in encrypted traffic (without decryption) and distributed anomaly detection

◦     Support for AES-256 with the powerful MACsec 256-bit encryption algorithm available on all models

◦     Trustworthy solutions: 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 details

Switch models and configurations

The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series is made up of fourteen modular uplink switch models and fourteen fixed uplink switch models.

Figure 1.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches

Table 1 lists port scale and power details for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series models.

Table 1.           Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switch configurations

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches (C9300 SKUs) support optional network modules for uplink ports (Figure 2). These field-replaceable network modules with 25G and 40G speeds in the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series enable greater architectural flexibility and infrastructure investment protection by allowing a nondisruptive migration from 10G to 25G and beyond. The default switch configuration does not include the network module. When you purchase the switch, you can choose from the network modules described in Table 2.

Figure 2.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Network Modules

Table 2.        Network module numbers and descriptions

Please note: Existing Catalyst 3850 network modules are also supported in Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches.

For additional details, please read our FAQs: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9300-series-switches/nb-09-cat-9k-faq-cte-en.pdf.

Power supplies

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches support dual redundant power supplies. The switches ship with one power supply by default, and the second power supply can be purchased when the switch is ordered or at a later time. If only one power supply is installed, it should always be in power supply bay #1. The switches also ship with three field-replaceable fans.

Figure 3.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Dual Redundant power supplies

Table 3 lists the different power supplies available in these switches and available PoE power.

Table 3.           Power supply models

^* Limited by port number and port rating (e.g. 24 PoE+ 30W ports = 720W)

^** Limited by design

^*** Upgrade options for 715W and 1100W PSU are available

Stacking

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switch models are designed for stacking switches as a single virtual switch, enabling customers to have a single management plane and control plane for up to 448 access ports.

Figure 4.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series modular uplink models stack (C9300 SKUs) and fixed uplink models stack (C9300L SKUs)

Table 4 lists the supported stacking options.

Table 4.           Supported stacking options

Mixed stacking between 9300 and 9300 higher/increased scale platforms is not supported. You cannot stack fixed uplink models (C9300L SKUs) with modular uplink models (C9300 SKUs) or other Catalyst switches, e.g. Cisco Catalyst 3850 and 3650 Series. Any combination of C9300 models can form a stack. Separately, any combination of C9300L models can form a stack.

Catalyst 9300 higher scale SKUs (C9300-24UB, C9300-24UXB, C9300-48UB) need to be stacked with other higher scale models in order to achieve a stack with the higher scale supported by these models.

StackWise cables that are available to configure stacking with Catalyst 9300 Series modular uplink models (C9300 SKUs) come in lengths of 0.5m, 1m and 3m.

The optional StackWise-320 kit for Catalyst 9300 Series fixed uplink models (C9300L SKUs) consists of two stack adapters and a stacking cable. The default stacking cable is 0.5 m, but options of 1m and 3m are also available. Table 5 lists the stacking accessories.

Table 5.           Stacking accessories

Figure 5.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switch stack units

Fan

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches also come with three field-replaceable fans and support (N+1) redundancy. Table 6 lists the fan module part number.

Table 6.           Fan modules

Performance and scalability

Performance and scalability metrics for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series are provided in Table 7.

Table 7.           Performance specifications

Table 8.           Bandwidth specifications

All models are at wire-speed nonblocking performance for both IPv4 and IPv6. The forwarding rates in the table above are measured with 64 byte IPv4 packet sizes.

SD-Access architecture

What if you could give time back to IT? Provide network access in minutes for any user or device to any application – without compromise? SD-Access is the industry’s first policy-based automation from network edge to cloud. Your foundation for your digital network, Cisco SD-Access. Built on the principles of the Cisco DNA, SD-Access provides end-to-end segmentation to keep user, device and application traffic separate without a redesign of the network. It automates user access policy so organizations can make sure the right policies are set for any user or device with any application across the network. This is accomplished with a single network fabric across LAN and WLAN which creates a consistent user experience anywhere without compromising on security.

There are many challenges today in managing the network to drive business outcomes. These limitations are due to manual configuration and fragmented tool offerings. SD-Access provides:

• A transformational management solution that reduces operational expenses and enhances business agility
• Consistent management of wired and wireless network provisioning and policy
• Automated network segmentation and group-based policy
• Contextual insights for fast issue resolution and capacity planning
• Open and programmable interfaces for integration with third-party solutions

For an overview of key use-cases SD-Access addresses, refer to SD-Access Solution Overview.

Platform benefits

Cisco IOS XE opens a completely new paradigm in network configuration, operation, and monitoring through network automation. Cisco’s automation solution is open, standards-based, and extensible across the entire lifecycle of a network device. The various automation mechanisms are outlined below.

• Automated device provisioningis the ability to automate the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files on Cisco Catalyst switches when they are being deployed in the network for the first time. Cisco provides both turnkey solutions such as Plug and Play and off-the-shelf tools such as Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) that enable an effortless and automated deployment.
• API-driven configurationis available with modern network switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series. It supports a wide range of automation features and provides robust open APIs over NETCONF and RESTCONF and GNMI using YANG data models for external tools, both off-the-shelf and custom built, to automatically provision network resources.
• Granular visibilityenables model-driven telemetry to stream data from a switch to a destination. The data to be streamed is identified through subscription to a data set in a YANG model. The subscribed data set is streamed to the destination at specified intervals. Additionally, Cisco IOS XE enables the push model. It provides near-real-time monitoring of the network, leading to quick detection and rectification of failures.
• Seamless software upgrades and patchingsupports OS resilience. Cisco IOS XE supports patching, which provides fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities between regular maintenance releases. This support lets you add patches without having to wait for the next maintenance release.

Security

• Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA)is a unique capability for identifying malware in encrypted traffic coming from the access layer. Since more and more traffic is becoming encrypted, the visibility this feature affords for threat detection is critical for keeping your network secure at different layers.
• AES-256 MACsec encryptionis the IEEE 802.1AE standard for authenticating and encrypting packets between switches. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches support 256-bit and 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), providing the most secure link encryption.
• Trustworthy solutions built with Cisco Trust Anchor Technologiesprovide a highly secure foundation for Cisco products. With the Catalyst 9300 Series, these technologies enable hardware and software authenticity assurance for supply chain trust and strong mitigation against man-in-the-middle attacks that compromise software and firmware. Trust Anchor capabilities include:

◦     Image signing: Cryptographically signed images provide assurance that the firmware, BIOS, and other software are authentic and unmodified. As the system boots, the system’s software signatures are checked for integrity.

◦     Secure Boot: Cisco Secure Boot technology anchors the boot sequence chain of trust to immutable hardware, mitigating threats against a system’s foundational state and the software that is to be loaded, regardless of a user’s privilege level. It provides layered protection against the persistence of illicitly modified firmware.

◦     Cisco Trust Anchor module: A tamper-resistant, strong cryptographic, single-chip solution provides hardware authenticity assurance to uniquely identify the product so that its origin can be confirmed to Cisco. This provides assurance that the product is genuine.

Resiliency and high availability

• StackWise-480:Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series modular uplink models (C9300 SKUs) support the industry’s highest back-panel stacking bandwidth solution (480 Gbps) with StackWise-480. Up to 8 Switches can be configured in a Stackwise-480 with the special connector at the back of the switch using dedicated stack cables.
• StackWise-320:The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series fixed uplink models (C9300L SKUs) support stacking bandwidth solution (320 Gbps) with StackWise-320. Up to 8 Switches can be optionally configured in a Stackwise-320 with the special Stack Kit at the back of the switch using dedicated stack cables.
• Cisco StackPower:Cisco StackPower is an innovative power interconnect system that allows the power supplies in a stack to be shared as a common resource among all the switches. This allows you to simply add one extra power supply in any switch of the stack and either provide power redundancy for any of the stack members or simply add more power to the shared pool. Up to 4 switches can be configured in a StackPower stack with the special connector at the back of the switch. However, with the use of XPS-2200 appliance, up to 9 switches can be configured in the StackPower stack. Cisco StackPower is only supported on the models with modular uplink stack - C9300 SKUs.

Figure 6.         

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series StackPower

• High availability:The Catalyst 9300 Series supports high-availability features, including the following:

◦     Cross-stack EtherChannel provides the ability to configure Cisco EtherChannel technology across different members of the stack for high resiliency.

◦     IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) provides rapid spanning tree convergence independent of spanning tree timers and also offers the benefit of Layer 2 load balancing and distributed processing.

◦     Per-VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree (PVRST+) allows rapid spanning tree (IEEE 802.1w) reconvergence on a per-VLAN spanning tree basis, providing simpler configuration than MSTP. In both MSTP and PVRST+ modes, stacked units behave as a single spanning tree node.

◦     Switch-port auto-recovery (“err-disable” recovery) automatically attempts to reactivate a link that is disabled because of a network error.

◦     The Catalyst 9300 Series platform delivers the best NSF/SSO resiliency architecture in a stackable solution with sub-50-ms failover.

◦     Always-On wireless network with stateful switchover when wireless functionality is enabled on stack of Catalyst 9300 Series switches.

Deep buffer Technology

Cisco Catalyst 9300 higher scale models have a deeper buffer to address the requirements of rich multi-media lossless content delivery and large routing tables in a fixed access solution with a wide range of uplink choices for deployment flexibility.

Flexible Netflow

• Flexible NetFlow (FNF):Cisco IOS Software FNF is the next generation in flow visibility technology. It enables optimization of the network infrastructure, reduces operation costs, and improves capacity planning and security incident detection with increased flexibility and scalability. The Catalyst 9300 Series is capable of up to 64,000 flow entries on 48-port and 24 port models and up to 128,000 flow entries on Multigigabit models.

Application visibility and control

• NBAR2:Next-Generation Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR2) enables advanced application classification techniques, accuracy with up to 1400 predefined and well-known application signatures and up to 150 encrypted applications on the Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches. The most popular applications included are Skype, Office 365, Microsoft Lync, Cisco WebEx^®, and Facebook, among many others that are predefined and easy to configure. NBAR2 provides the network administrator with an important tool to identify, control, and monitor end-user application usage while helping ensure a quality user experience and securing the network from malicious attacks. NBAR2 leverages FNF to report application performance and activities within the network to any supported NetFlow collector, such as Cisco Prime^®, Cisco Stealthwatch^®, or any compliant third-party tool.

QoS

• Superior QoS:The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series offers Gigabit Ethernet speeds with intelligent services that keep traffic flowing smoothly, even at 10 times the normal network speed. Industry-leading mechanisms for cross-stack marking, classification, and scheduling deliver superior performance for data, voice, and video traffic at wire speed. Superior QoS includes granular wireless bandwidth management and fair sharing, 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field classification, Shaped Round Robin (SRR) scheduling, Committed Information Rate (CIR), and eight egress queues per port.

Service discovery

• Multicast DNS (mDNS) gateway:This service discovery gateway capability facilitates sharing of services advertised using the Apple mDNS (Bonjour) protocol, such as printers, Apple TVs, and file services across the network. Additionally, the administrator can create policies defining which services can be seen and accessed by the users in the network. This capability facilitates a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) rollout.

Smart operation

• WebUI:WebUI is an embedded GUI-based device-management tool that provides the ability to provision the device, to simplify device deployment and manageability, and to enhance the user experience. It comes with the default image, so there is no need to enable anything or install any license on the device. You can use WebUI to build configurations, and to monitor and troubleshoot the device without having CLI expertise.
• Efficient switch operation^*:Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches provide optimum power saving with Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) on the RJ-45 ports and low-power operations for industry best-in-class power management and power consumption capabilities. The ports support reduced power modes so that ports not in use can move into a lower power utilization state. Other efficient switch operation features are as follows:

◦     Per-port power consumption command allows customers to specify a maximum power setting on an individual port.

◦     Per-port PoE power sensing measures actual power being drawn, enabling more intelligent control of powered devices. The PoE MIB provides proactive visibility into power usage and allows you to set different power-level thresholds.

• RFID tags:Catalyst 9300 Series switches have an embedded RFID tag that facilitates easy asset and inventory management using commercial RFID readers.
• Blue beacon:Catalyst 9300 Series switches support a blue beacon LED for easy identification of the switch being accessed.

High-Performance IP routing

The Cisco Express Forwarding hardware routing architecture delivers extremely high-performance IP routing in Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, based on:

• IP unicast routing protocols (including static, Routing Information Protocol Version 1 [RIPv1], RIPv2, RIPng, and Open Shortest Path First [OSPF], Routed Access) are supported for small network routing applications with the Network Essentials stack. Equal-cost routing facilitates Layer 3 load balancing and redundancy across the stack.
• Advanced IP unicast routing protocols (including Full [OSPF], Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [EIGRP], Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 [BGPv4], and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System Version 4 [IS-ISv4]) are supported for load balancing and for constructing scalable LANs. IPv6 routing (using OSPFv3 and BGPv6) is supported in hardware for maximum performance.
• Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast routing is supported, including PIM Sparse Mode (PIM SM), and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM).
• IPv6 addressing is supported on interfaces with appropriate show commands for monitoring and troubleshooting.

Audio Video Bridging (AVB)

Starting with Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.8, the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series supports the IEEE 802.1 AVB standard. This standard provided the means for highly reliable delivery of low-latency, time-synchronized audio and video streaming services through Layer 2 Ethernet networks. The standard also makes it easier to integrate new services and for AV equipment from different vendors to interoperate.

Benefits

• Improves quality of experience by lowering jitter and latency for time-synchronized delivery of high-quality AV.
• Provides scalability of applications across networked deployments, including expansive and complex AV infrastructure.
• Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with reduced cabling (lowers CapEx) and no license fees (lowers OpEx).

For more details about AVB and specific models supported, check https://www.cisco.com/go/avb.

Multigigabit Ethernet technology: Cisco Multigigabit Ethernet technology allows you to achieve bandwidth speeds from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps over traditional Category 5e/6 cabling or above. This technology addresses the need for exponential increases in bandwidth with the enormous growth of 802.11ac Wave 2, to be eclipsed by the growth of Wi-Fi 6 and new wireless applications without having to replace current cabling infrastructure.

Power over ethernet leadership

Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE and Cisco UPOE+^©): PoE removes the need for wall sockets to power each PoE-enabled device and eliminates the cost of additional electrical cabling and circuits that would otherwise be necessary in IP phone and WLAN deployments. Cisco UPOE extends the IEEE PoE+ standard to double the power per port to 60 watts. This facilitates delivery of network power to a broad range of devices requiring higher power, including virtual desktop terminals, IP turrets, compact switches, building management gateways, LED lights, wireless access points, and IP phones. Designed for digital building and IOT applications, Cisco Catalyst 9300 UPOE+ switches (delivering POE power up to 90W) provide data and power over a single cable to power devices like wireless access points, digital signage, security cameras, thermal cameras with PTZ features, LED lighting fixtures and large display screens. UPoE+ offers reduced cabling and installation costs without need for permits, device daisy-chaining application that require higher power draw, real-time device information, centralized management and remote control, faster and flexible device installation where devices can be positioned in a practical location instead of proximity to the electrical outlets.

Catalyst 9300 Series modular uplink (C9300 SKUs) and fixed uplink (C9300L SKUs) models both support Cisco UPoE or PoE+ and PoE, thereby addressing the largest range of network power needs.

Tables 9 and 10 show the power supply combinations required for different PoE needs.

Table 9.           Power supply requirements for Catalyst 9300 Series modular uplink PoE/PoE+ models (C9300-xxP SKUs)

Table 10.       Power supply requirements for Catalyst 9300 Series UPOE models (C9300-xxU/UXM/UN SKUs)

Table 11.       Power supply requirements for Catalyst 9300 Series UPOE+ models (C9300-xxH SKUs)

Table 12.       Power supply requirements for Catalyst 9300 Series fixed uplink PoE/PoE+ models (C9300L-xxP SKUs)

• Perpetual PoE:With Perpetual PoE, the PoE power is maintained during a switch reload. This is important for IoT endpoints such as PoE-powered lights, so that there is no disruption during switch reboot.
• Fast PoE:When power is restored to a switch, PoE starts delivering power to endpoints without waiting for the operating system to fully load, thereby speeding up the time for the endpoint to start up.

^* C9300-48UN, C9300-24UX, C9300-48UXM are available with PWR-C1-1100WAC-P Platinum-rated power supply. Platinum-rated power supplies are more efficient, lowering operating power costs

^* PWR-C1-1100WAC-UP and PWR-C1-715WAC-UP Platinum-rated power supply upgrade options are available to upgrade the default AC power supply to 1100W or 715W

Software requirements

Cisco DNA Software for Access Switching is available for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series.

Cisco DNA Software for Access Switching offers comprehensive solutions for the enterprise campus and branch offices. Cisco DNA for Access Switching introduces a simpler and more economical way to deploy access, aggregation, and core switches across enterprise campus and branch locations.

The Cisco DNA Subscription for Switching offer delivers an unbound network on an open and extensible architecture to help you navigate the digital journey. This subscription offer simplifies the buying process and includes lower initiation costs and flexible terms. It includes: Cisco DNA Premier with full Cisco DNA capabilities and SD-Access, bundled with ISE Base, ISE Plus, and StealthWatch.

For ordering information for Cisco DNA Software for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series, go to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/one-access/switching-part-numbers.html.

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches run on Cisco IOS XE 16.5.1a release or later with the following exceptions. Catalyst 9300 Series 1G fiber models (C9300-xxS SKUs) are supported on Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1a release or later. Catalyst 9300 Series fixed uplink models (C9300L SKUs) are supported on Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1b release or later. These software releases includes all the features listed earlier in the Platform Benefits section.

Licensing

Packaging

The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family of switches introduces a new and simplified licensing package in the form of base and add-on licenses.

• The perpetual licensingpackage includes the Network Essentials and Network Advantage licensing options that are tied to the hardware. Between them, the base licensing packages cover switching fundamentals, management automation, troubleshooting, and advanced switching features. These Network licenses are perpetual.

The subscription licensing package includes the Cisco DNA Essentials and Cisco DNA Advantage options. In addition to on-box capabilities, the features available with this package provide Cisco innovations on the switch, as well as on Cisco DNA Center. The Cisco DNA subscription licenses are mandatory at the time of configuration.

License consumption is easily determined by the package itself. While perpetual licenses are always permanent and without an expiration date, subscription licenses have to be purchased for a 3-, 5-, or 7-year term (and hence are also known as term-based licenses). Table 12 shows the combinations of perpetual and subscription licenses that must be purchased.

Table 13.       Licensing combinations

^*At the time of Cisco DNA license renewal, the Cisco DNA Essentials license can be purchased to be used with Network Advantage

Managing licenses with Smart Accounts: Creating Smart Accounts by using the Cisco Smart Software Manager (SSM) enables you to manage your software licenses from a centralized website. You can set up Cisco SSM to receive daily email alerts and to be notified of expiring subscription licenses that you want to renew.

You must order a Cisco DNA subscription term license in order to purchase a switch. When the license term expires, you can either renew the add-on license to continue using it or deactivate the add-on license and then reload the switch to continue operating with the base license capabilities.

Both the base and add-on licenses are also available for a 90-day evaluation period. An evaluation license is activated temporarily, without purchase. An expired evaluation license cannot be reactivated after reload.

Note:      It is not required to deploy Cisco DNA Center just to use one of the above packages.

Tables 13 shows the features included in the Network Essentials and Advantage packages.

Table 14 shows the features included in the Cisco DNA Essentials and Advantage packages.

Table 14.       Network Essentials and Advantage package features

Table 15.       Cisco DNA Essentials and Advantage package features (add a section for other software support and add Prime, ISE andStealthwatch support)

^* Note: A purchase of Cisco DNA Advantage or Cisco DNA Premier per Access Point is required in order to enable the Wireless Controller functionality on Catalyst Switches

Specifications

Dimensions, Weight, Acoustic, Mean time between failures

The table below shows the dimensions, weights, acoustic and mean time between failures of all models of Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches.

Table 16.       Model Dimensions, Weight, and Mean Time between failures metrics

Connectors

Table 16 shows the supported connectors for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series.

Table 17.     Connectors

For the latest Cisco transceiver module compatibility information, refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/interfaces-modules/transceiver-modules/products-device-support-tables-list.html.

Management and standards support

Table 17 shows management and standards support for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series.

Table 18.       Management and standards support^*

Power supply specifications

Table 18 lists the power specifications for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series based on the kind of power supply used.

Table 19.       Power specifications

Table 20.       Power specifications – platinum rated power supplies

^* PWR-C1-1100WAC-UP is available as an PSU upgrade option to 1100W primary PSU

^* PWR-C1-715WAC-UP is available as an PSU upgrade option to 715W primary PSU

Power consumption of standalone 9300 Series Switches

Table 20 shows the power consumption of standalone Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches based on Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) testing using Internet Mix (IMIX) distribution stream traffic, with input voltage of 115VAC at 60 Hz and no PoE loading. The values given are the maximum possible power consumption numbers under the respective test scenarios.

Table 21.       Power Consumption of Standalone 9300 Series Switches (tested on IOS XE 16.5.1)

Table 22.       Power consumption of standalone 9300 Series Switches with platinum rated power supply (tested on Cisco IOS XE 16.8.1)

Safety and compliance

Table 22 lists the safety and compliance information for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series.

Table 23.       Safety and compliance information

Warranty

Cisco enhanced limited lifetime hardware warranty

The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches come with a Cisco Enhanced Limited Lifetime hardware Warranty (E-LLW) that includes Next-Business-Day (NBD) delivery of replacement hardware where available and 90 days of 8x5 Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support.

Your formal warranty statement, including the warranty applicable to Cisco software, appears in the information packet that accompanies your Cisco product. We encourage you to review the warranty statement shipped with your specific product carefully before use.

Cisco reserves the right to refund the purchase price as its exclusive warranty remedy.

For further information about warranty terms, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/warranty. Table 23 provides information about the E-LLW.

Table 24.       E-LLW details

Cisco environmental sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions, operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.

Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:

Reference links to product-specific environmental sustainability information that is mentioned in relevant sections of this data sheet are provided in the following table:

Cisco makes the packaging data available for informational purposes only. It may not reflect the most current legal developments, and Cisco does not represent, warrant or guarantee that it is complete, accurate or up-to-date. This information is subject to change without notice.

Cisco Services

Cisco Services for next-generation Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches

Achieve infrastructure excellence faster and with less risk. Cisco Catalyst 9000 Services provide expert guidance to help you successfully deploy, manage and support the new Cisco Catalyst 9000 switching family. With unmatched networking expertise, best practices, and innovative tools, we can help you reduce overall upgrade, refresh, and migration costs as you introduce new hardware, software, and protocols into the network. Offering a comprehensive lifecycle of services – from implementation, optimization, technical, and managed services – Cisco experts help you reduce disruption and achieve operational excellence to extract maximum value from your Cisco DNA ready infrastructure.

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Software policy for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches

Software policy for network stack components

Customers with the Network Essentials Stack and Network Advantage Stack software feature sets are provided with maintenance updates and bug fixes designed to maintain compliance of the software. This includes compliance with published specifications, release notes, and industry standards as long as the original end user continues to own or use the product or up to one year from the end-of-sale date for the product, whichever occurs earlier.

Cisco embedded support for Cisco DNA term components

Cisco Embedded Support delivers the right support for Cisco software products and suites. It will keep your business applications performing as expected and protect your investment. Cisco Embedded Support for the Cisco DNA Essentials and Cisco DNA Advantage term components is included. Cisco Embedded Support provides access to TAC support, major software updates, maintenance and minor software releases, and the Cisco Embedded Support site, for increased productivity with anytime access.

Ordering information

Table 24 lists ordering information for the Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series. To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering home page at https://www.cisco.com/en/US/ordering/or13/or8/order_customer_help_how_to_order_listing.html.

Table 25.       Ordering information