The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches are Cisco's leading stackable enterprise switching platform designed for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. They represent the next generation of the industry's most widely used switching platform. The Catalyst 9300 Series switches serve as a fundamental building block for Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), Cisco's primary enterprise architecture. With 480 Gbps, they offer the highest density of stack bandwidth solutions in the industry as well as the most flexible uplink architecture. The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first optimized platform for high-density 802.11ac Wave 2 and sets new benchmarks for network scalability. These switches are future-proof and feature an x86 CPU architecture along with increased memory, allowing 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 and offers flexible deployment with support for Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), ensuring the most resilient architecture in a stackable solution. The highly resilient and efficient power architecture features Cisco StackPower, providing high-density Cisco Universal Power Over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) 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 enables greater scalability and higher throughput rates. A modern operating system, Cisco IOS XE with programmability, offers advanced security features and the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT).