Overview
The Cisco® Catalyst® 9300 Series is Cisco’s premier stackable enterprise switching platform, purpose-built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. As the next generation of Cisco’s most widely deployed switching solution, it’s ideal for mission-critical branch and campus deployments requiring greater scale, enhanced security, robust performance, and programmability.
Technical Specifications
- Replacement For: Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series
- Supported Software: Network Advantage, Network Essentials
- Network Modules: Fixed modules
- Stacking Technology: Cisco StackWise-320
- Stacking Bandwidth: 320 Gbps
Performance & Scale
- MAC Addresses: Up to 32,000
- IPv4 Routes (ARP + learned): Up to 32,000 (24,000 direct, 8,000 indirect)
- IPv6 Routing Entries: 16,000
- Multicast Routing Scale: 8,000
- QoS Entries: 5,120
- ACL Entries: 5,120
- Packet Buffer: 16 MB (for 24/48-port Gigabit models)
- Flexible NetFlow (FNF): 64,000 flows (24/48-port models)
Memory & Interfaces
- DRAM: 8 GB
- Flash Storage: 16 GB
- VLAN IDs Supported: 4094
- Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs): 1000
- Jumbo Frame Support: Up to 9198 bytes
Switching Capacity & Forwarding Rate
- Switching Capacity: 56 Gbps to 176 Gbps
- Forwarding Rate: 41.66 Mpps to 130.95 Mpps
