The Catalys Cisco 9300 series are Cisco’s leading stackable business switching platform designed for security, IoT, mobility and cloud. They are the next generation of the most widely deployed switching platform in the industry. The Catalyst 9300 series switches form the basic component for software defined access (SD-Access), the leading Cisco enterprise architecture. At 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 platform optimized for 802.11ac Wave2 of high density. Establish new maximums for the network scale. These switches are also ready for the future, with an x86 CPU architecture and more memory, allowing them to host containers and run third-party applications and scripts natively within the switch.   Featured Products   The highest wireless scale with Wave 2 access points supported in a single switch with selected models   UADP 2.0 Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable microentry and pipeline capabilities, along with configurable mapping based on level 2 and level 3 re-routing templates, access control lists (ACL) and quality of service (QoS)   Complex x86 CPU with 8 GB of memory and 16 GB of flash and external storage slot SSD USB 3.0 connectable (delivery of 120 GB of storage with an optional SSD disk drive) to host containers   USB 2.0 slot for loading system images and configuring configurations   Up to 480 Gbps of stackable local switching bandwidth   Offers of flexible and dense uplinks with 1G, Multigigabit, 10G, 25G and 40G   Flexible downlink options with 1G and Multigigabit links   Power PoE Capabilities with up to 384 PoE ports per stack, 60W Cisco UPOE and PoE   Intelligent Power Management with Cisco StackPower technology, which provides energy stacking between members for power redundancy   Flexible NetFlow (FNF) based on hardware and line speed, which provides a flow collection of up to 64,000 flows.   Support for IPv6 on hardware, which provides cable speed re-routing for IPv6 networks   Support dual stack for IPv4 / IPv6 and dynamic assignments of hardware re-routing tables, to facilitate the migration from IPv4 to IPv6.   IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) integrated to provide a better audio and video experience through improved time synchronization and QoS   The precision time protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with submicroecer precision, which makes it suitable for network timing and frequency synchronization and distribution.   Cisco IOS XE, a modern operating system for the company with support for model-based programmability that includes NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, in-box Python scripts, telemetry streaming, container-based application hosting and patches to correct critical errors. The operating system also has built-in defenses to protect against attacks at runtime   SD access: the Cisco Catalyst 9300 series switches form the fundamental building block for SD-Access, the leading Cisco enterprise architecture:   Automation based on end-to-end policies   Simplified segmentation and microsegmentation, with predictable performance and scalability   Automation through the Cisco Applications Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM)   Policy managed through the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)   Network guarantee provided through the network data platform   Quicker launch of new commercial services and significantly improved problem resolution time   Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: a simple, secure, unified and integrated offer to facilitate new implementations or updates of branch or campus devices in an existing network   Advanced security   Analysis of encrypted traffic (ETA): it benefits from the power of automatic learning to identify and take action against threats or anomalies in its network, including the detection of malware in encrypted traffic ( without decryption) and the detection of distributed anomalies.   Support for AES-256 with the powerful 256-bit MACsec encryption algorithm available on all models   Reliable systems: Secure hardware, Secure Boot and secure identification of unique devices (SUDI) for Plug and Play, to verify the identity of hardware and software.