Benefits of Upgrading to Cisco 9350 Series Smart Switches Brochure

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Why upgrade to the Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches? Because they are the foundation of a future-proof workplace.

A future-proof workplace has the agility to support the evolving needs of modern business while being resilient enough to adapt to an unknown future. It is where amazing experiences become the norm, not the exception. Offices become magnets, not just mandates. Technology becomes integrated and extensible, not rip and replace. Collaboration happens everywhere, not just in person. And security is infused from the start, not as an afterthought. This is the new AI Enterprise and is what the Cisco® C9350 Series Smart Switches have been built for.

But this is more than just the next generation in enterprise-grade switching. It is in fact the beginning of the next chapter in the One Cisco story – offering our customers a unified experience with the same hardware, software, and support regardless of how they manage their network.

Unified hardware: Customers can choose to deploy their networks in a cloud, on-premises, or via a hybrid approach using the same hardware and simplified SKU structure with no variations based on management mode.

Unified software: Cisco IOS® XE enables all management modes with common licensing tiers (Advantage and Essentials) for on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments.

Unified support: Consistent and reliable product support for both hardware and software is included with the unified licenses.

Table 1.        Benefits of the Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches compared to other Cisco Catalyst access switches

Trend

Feature

Installed base access switches

Benefits

Cisco Catalyst 3560-x and 3750-x Series

Cisco Catalyst 3750G Series

Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series

Cisco C9350 Series Smart Switches

Scale and performance

Bandwidth per stack

No stacking/64 Gbps

32 Gbps

480 Gbps copper and fiber

Up to 1.6 Tbps copper and fiber

Greater throughput

Uplinks

2x 10G1

4x 1G

4x 1G, 2x 10G, 4x 10G (all models)

2x or 4x dual-rate 100G/40G;

4x multi-rate 50G/25G/10G/1G;

8x multi-rate 25G/10G/1G

Greater uplink scale

Multigigabit technology

Supports speeds up to 10G with traditional cabling environments

Advanced security

100G IPsec in hardware

 

 

 

Cisco C9350 models come with 100G line-rate IPsec to enable various options for new edge connectvity

Native Flexible NetFlow

 

 

 

Cisco TrustSec® and SGT2 for wired and wireless

Wired

 

Orchestrate role-based access to corporate resources; AES-256, MACsec-256, WAN MACsec

Trustworthy solutions

 

 

 

Native MACsec-256 encryption

 

 

Multigigabit, 10G models only

Most secure link authentication and encryption

Encrypted Traffic Analytics

 

 

 

Detect malware hiding in encrypted traffic without decrypting it

Cisco Umbrella®/Hypershield

 

 

 

Cloud security service that provides a first line of defense against threats, wherever users access the internet — on or off the corporate network

Simplicity and automation

x86 CPU

 

 

 

Faster CPU performance

Cisco IOS® XE OS

 

 

 

Single common network OS across switching, routing, wireless, and IoT

KVM3 and container-based hosting environments

 

 

 

App hosting in the network, including Docker containers

Guest shell

 

 

On-box Python scripting

Simplified campus automation

 

 

 

Optimized discovery and configuration of network devices

Model-driven programmability

 

 

Standards-based programmable interfaces

Streaming telemetry

 

 

Rich contextual insights

Fabric-in-a-box

 

 

 

Enable SD-Access without needing a separate device for each fabric role

SD-Access4 programmability

 

 

Optional subscription

 

Cisco ThousandEyes®Endpoint Agents

 

 

 

Visibility from network to cloud for rapid problem isolation

Cisco Spaces gateway

 

 

 

Visibility into wired and wireless network devices for smart buildings

On-premises, hybrid, or cloud management

 

 

 

Standard

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and mobility

Wi-Fi 7 access points

-

48

10G Multigigabit, 90W PoE

Wi-Fi 6E/6 access points

24

48

 

Max number of access points supported

100

200

Highest density of next-generation access points in a 1RU box

ASIC for wired and wireless convergence

UADP 1.05

Cisco Silicon One™ A100/L

Optimized for the AI Enterprise with secure converged wired and wireless access for operational simplicity and scale

Application visibility across wired and wireless

 

End-to-end quality of experience6

 

1 G: Gigabit Ethernet
2 SGT: Security Group Tag
3 KVM: Kernel-based virtual machine
4 SD-Access: Software-Defined Access
5 UADP ASIC: Unified Access Data Plane ASIC
6 Cisco Assurance

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More reasons to upgrade

      Reduce cost and complexity with Cisco SD-Access by automating policy, enabling fast service creation, and providing complete visibility into the wired and wireless access networks.

      Get greater visibility and management in Cisco Meraki™ cloud environments with cloud management and monitoring for Catalyst.

      Create better customer and employee experiences through higher performance, improved network visibility, and service assurance with embedded Cisco Spaces and ThousandEyes network testing.

      Gain advanced end-to-end security to handle threats before, during, and after attacks

 

 

 

 

 

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