Overview
The Cisco® Catalyst® 9300 Series is Cisco’s next-generation stackable enterprise switching platform, purpose-built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. As the industry’s most widely deployed switching solution, it delivers high performance, scalability, and programmability. Designed for mission-critical branch and campus deployments, it offers unmatched resiliency and flexibility.
Key Specifications
- Replacement for: Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series
- IOS Support: Network Advantage, Network Essentials
- Network Module Options: Fixed Modules
- Stacking Technology: StackWise-320
- Stacking Bandwidth: 320 Gbps
Performance and Scale
- MAC Address Table: 32,000 entries
- IPv4 Routes: 32,000 total (24,000 direct, 8,000 indirect)
- IPv6 Routes: 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 Entries: 64,000 flows
Hardware and Capacity
- DRAM: 8 GB
- Flash Memory: 16 GB
- VLAN Support: Up to 4094 VLAN IDs
- Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs): Up to 1000
- Jumbo Frame Support: Up to 9198 bytes
- Switching Capacity: 56 Gbps – 176 Gbps
- Forwarding Rate: 41.66 Mpps – 130.95 Mpps
