Overview
The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series is a next-generation stackable enterprise switching platform built for enhanced security, cloud readiness, IoT, and scalability. As the successor to the Catalyst 3850, it delivers industry-leading stacking bandwidth up to 480 Gbps and supports the most flexible uplink options. Designed to serve as the foundation of Cisco’s Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) architecture, the Catalyst 9300 was the first switch optimized for 802.11ac Wave 2 and high-density Wi-Fi 6. Powered by an x86 CPU and expanded memory, it is future-ready to host containers and run third-party applications natively. Cisco StackWise-320 technology enables high availability and flexible deployments.
Specifications
- Replacement for: Catalyst 3850
- Supported Software: Network Essentials, Network Advantage
- Network Modules: Fixed module configurations
- Stacking Technology: Cisco StackWise-320
- Stacking Bandwidth: 320 Gbps
- MAC Addresses Supported: 32,000
- IPv4 Routes: 32,000 (24,000 direct, 8,000 indirect)
- IPv6 Routes: 16,000
- Multicast Routing Scale: 8,000
- QoS Scale Entries: 5,120
- ACL Scale Entries: 5,120
- Flexible NetFlow Entries: 64,000 (on 24-/48-port GE models)
- Packet Buffer: 16 MB (on 24-/48-port GE models)
- DRAM: 8 GB
- Flash Memory: 16 GB
- VLANs Supported: 4094
- Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs): 1,000
- Jumbo Frame Support: Up to 9198 bytes
- Switching Capacity: 56 Gbps – 176 Gbps
- Forwarding Rate: 41.66 Mpps – 130.95 Mpps
