● Highest wireless scale for Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave 2 access points supported on a single switch with select models.● Catalyst 9300 and Catalyst 9300L/LM models are based on the Cisco UADP 2.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) with programmable pipeline and micro-engine capabilities, along with template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries.● Catalyst 9300X models are based on UADP 2.0sec ASIC which adds line rate support for Crypto, including 100G hardware-based IPsec.● x86 CPU complex with 8-GB memory, and 16 GB of flash and external USB 3.0 SSD pluggable storage slot (delivering up to 240GB of storage with an option SSD drive) to host containers. C9300X models support 16GB of memory.● USB 2.0 slot to load system images and set configurations.● Up to 1 TBps of local stackable switching bandwidth with Catalyst 9300X models.● Deeper buffer and higher scale model options for rich multi-media content delivery applications.● Flexible and dense uplink offerings with 100G, 40G, 25G, Multigigabit, 10G, and 1G as fixed or modular uplinks.● Easy transition from 40G to 100G and 10G to 25G with dual-rate optics.● Flexible downlink options with 25G, 10G and 1G Copper and Fiber as well as the densest Multigigabit links

• 24 Gigabit Ethernet UPOE interfaces supporting PoE, PoE+, and UPOE.
• Up to 820 W PoE power budget according to the detailed specifications.
• 320 Gbps switching capacity and 240 Mpps forwarding rate.
• Layer 3 switching capabilities for enterprise network deployments.
• StackWise-480 technology with up to 480 Gbps stacking bandwidth.
• Dual dedicated hardware stacking ports.
• Supports physical stacking of up to 8 switches.
• Modular 10G or 40G uplink options available separately.
• 8 GB RAM and 16 GB flash memory.
• Advanced security features including AES-128 MACsec encryption.
• Support for Adaptive Policy and Security Group-based traffic segmentation.
• CLI, Web UI, and SNMP management.
• DNA Essentials network management.
• Supports up to 4,000 VLANs and jumbo frames up to 9198 bytes.