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 deployed switching platform. The Catalyst 9300 Series switches serve as the foundational building block for Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), Cisco’s primary enterprise architecture. With 480 Gbps, they offer the industry’s highest-density stacking bandwidth solution and the most flexible uplink architecture. The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first optimized platform for high-density 802.11ac Wave 2, setting new maximums for network scale. These switches are future-ready, featuring an x86 CPU architecture and increased memory, allowing them to host containers and run third-party applications and scripts natively. The Catalyst 9300 Series is designed for Cisco StackWise technology, enabling flexible deployment with support for nonstop forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), ensuring the most resilient architecture in a stackable solution with sub-50-ms failover. The highly resilient and efficient power architecture includes Cisco StackPower, delivering 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 protects your investment while allowing for larger scale and higher throughput. The modern operating system, Cisco IOS XE, with programmability, offers advanced security capabilities and Internet of Things (IoT) convergence.