The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches are Cisco’s lead stackable enterprise switching platform built for security, Io T, mobility, & 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 & 802.11ac Wave 2. It sets new maximums for network scale. These switches are also ready for the future, with an x 86 CPU architecture & more memory, enabling them to host containers & run third-party applications & scripts natively within the switch. The Catalyst 9300 Series is designed for Cisco Stack Wise technology, providing flexible deployment with support for nonstop forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), for the most resilient architecture in a stackable (sub-50-ms) solution. The highly resilient & efficient power architecture features Cisco Stack Power, which delivers high-density Power over Ethernet Plus (Po E+), 60W Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) & 90W Cisco UPOE+© 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 allows a larger scale & higher throughput. A modern operating system, Cisco IOS XE with programmability offers advanced security capabilities & Internet of Things (Io T) convergence.