The Cisco® Catalyst® 9300 Series switches are Cisco’s lead stackable enterprise switching platform
built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. They are the next generation of the industry’s most widely
deployed switching platform. Catalyst 9300 Series switches form the foundational building block for
Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), Cisco’s lead enterprise architecture. At up to 480 Gbps, they
are the industry’s highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most flexible uplink architecture.
The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first optimized platform for high-density Wi-Fi 6 and 802.11ac Wave2.
It sets new maximums for network scale. These switches are also ready for the future, with an x86
CPU architecture and more memory, enabling them to host containers and run third-party applications
and scripts natively within the switch.