Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switch Data Sheet

 

Product overview

Built for Security, IoT, Mobility, and Cloud

Cisco^® Catalyst^® 9400 Series switches are Cisco’s lead modular enterprise access switching platform and as part of the Catalyst 9000 family, are built to transform your network to handle a hybrid world where the workplace is anywhere, endpoints could be anything, and applications are hosted all over the place. The Catalyst 9400 Series, including the Catalyst 9400 SUP-2/2XL supervisor and line cards, continues to shape the future with continued innovation that helps you reimagine connections, reinforce security and redefine the experience for your hybrid workforce big and small.

Advanced persistent security threats, exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, mobility everywhere and cloud adoption require a network fabric that integrates advanced hardware and software innovations to automate, secure, and simplify customer networks. The goal of this network fabric is to enable customer revenue growth by accelerating business service rollout.

The Cisco Networking Cloud and Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) is the network fabric that powers business. Cisco Networking Cloud is an open and extensible, software-driven architecture that accelerates and simplifies your enterprise network operations. The programmable architecture frees your IT staff from time consuming, repetitive network configuration tasks so they can focus instead on innovation that positively transforms your business. SD-Access enables policy-based automation from edge to cloud with foundational capabilities. These include:

●      Simplified device deployment

●      Unified management of wired and wireless networks

●      Network virtualization and segmentation

●      Group-based policies

●      Context-based analytics

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series switches are Cisco’s leading modular enterprise switching access, distribution and core platform built for security, IoT and cloud. These switches provide unparalleled investment protection with a chassis architecture that supports up to 9 Tbps of system bandwidth and unmatched power delivery with high density IEEE 802.3bt PoE (60W and 90W). Redundancy is now table stakes across the portfolio. The Catalyst 9400 delivers state-of-the-art High Availability (HA) with capabilities like Cisco StackWise^® Virtual technology with In-Service-Software-Upgrade (ISSU), SSO/NSF, uplink resiliency, N+1/N+N redundancy for power supplies. The platform is enterprise optimized with an innovative dual-serviceable fan tray design, side to side airflow and is closet-friendly with ~16” depth. A single system can scale up to 384 access ports with your choice of 10G, 5G and 2.5G multigigabit copper, 1G copper, Cisco UPOE^®+, Cisco UPOE and PoE+ options, up to 384 ports of 10G and 1G Fiber, up to 164 ports 25G SFP28 options. The availability of 1/10 G fiber ports facilitate aggregation of existing small form factor fixed access switches. The addition of the new SUP-2/2XL supervisors allows unique investment protection through 100G uplink connectivity option which is becoming a popular alternative to 40G in the core. The platform also supports advanced routing and infrastructure services, SD-Access capabilities, and network system virtualization. These features enable optional placement of the platform in the core and aggregation layers of small to medium-sized campus environments.

Software subscription

There are two choices for software subscription: Cisco DNA or Cisco Catalyst. They provide:

●      Flexible licensing models to smoothly distribute customers’ software spending over time.

●      Investment protection for software purchases through software services–enabled license portability.

●      Access to updates, upgrades, and new technology from Cisco through Cisco Software Support Services (SWSS.)

●      Base product-level support for hardware, software, and Cisco IOS (included with Cisco Catalyst software subscription).

●      ISE licenses included in the Advantage tier to facilitate zero-trust network security^* (as part of Cisco Catalyst software subscription).

●      Access to end-to-end network visibility with Cisco Spaces and service assurance through Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics (included with the Advantage license).

Manage your entire switching structure as a single, converged component. With one management system and one policy for wired and wireless networks, it offers an efficient way to provide more secure access.

Table 1.        ISE license quantities included with Cisco Catalyst Advantage software subscription for Switching

Product highlights

●      The Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) 3.0sec ASIC on C9400X-SUP-2XL, C9400X-SUP-2 and Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) 2.0 ASIC on C9400-SUP-1/1XL/1XL-Y is ready for next- generation technologies with its programmable pipeline, microengine capabilities, and template-based configurable allocation of Layer 2, Layer 3, forwarding, Access Control List (ACL), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries.

●      Intel 2.4-GHz x86 with up to 960 GB of SATA SSD local storage for container-based application hosting.

●      Up to 4 non-blocking 100/40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and up to 4 non-blocking 25/10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks on Supervisor-2/2XL.

●      Up to 2 non-blocking 25 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks on Supervisor-1XL-Y.

●      Up to 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable [QSFP]) and up to 8 non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+) on Supervisor-1/1XL/1XL-Y.

●      Up to 384 ports of non-blocking 10/100/1000M RJ-45 ports.

●      Up to 392 ports of non-blocking 1 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber (SFP) ports (Sup1/1XL/XL-Y). Up to 384 ports of non- blocking 1 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber (SFP) ports (SUP2/2XL).

●      Up to 392 ports of non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports (8 uplinks plus 384 10G line card ports) (Sup1/1XL/XL-Y); 388 ports of non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports (4 uplinks plus 384 10G line cards ports) (SUP2/2XL).

●      Up to 168 ports of 25 Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 ports (8 25G uplinks plus 160 25G line cards ports) (SUP2/2XL).

●      Up to 36 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports (4 100G uplinks plus 32 100G line cards ports) (SUP2/2XL).

●      Up to 384 ports of non-blocking 10G/5G mGig RJ-45 ports.

●      Cisco UPOE^®+ (90 W), Cisco UPOE (60W), and PoE+ (30W) capabilities on 384 ports simultaneously.

●      Line rate hardware-based Flexible NetFlow (FNF) delivering flow collection up to 384,000 flows.

●      IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire rate forwarding for IPv6 networks.

●      Dual-stack support for IPv4 and IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration.

●      Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables and Layer 2 tables.

●      Open Cisco IOS^® XE: This modern operating system for the enterprise provides support for model-driven programmability, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting and patching for critical bug fixes. The OS also has built-in defenses to protect against runtime attacks.

●      End-to-end visualization of the path from campus/branch to clouds/DC with Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics (included with Cisco DNA Advantage licenses).

SD-Access

Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series switches form the foundation building block for SD-Access – Cisco’s leading enterprise architecture, which includes:

◦    Policy-based automation from edge to cloud.

◦    Segmentation and micro-segmentation made easy, with having predictable performance and scalability.

◦    Automation through Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center).

◦    Policy through the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).

◦    Network assurance through Network Data Platform.

◦    The ability to launch new business services faster and improve issue resolution time significantly.

●      SD-Access Embedded Wireless: The Cisco Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package can be installed on Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series switches to enable wireless controller functionality for distributed branches and small campuses. Once installed, the Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller running on a Catalyst 9400 Series switch can support up to 200 APs and 4000 Clients. A maximum two wireless controllers can be enabled per site on two different Catalyst 9400 Series switches which will increase to scale up to 200 APs and 4000 Wireless Clients. The Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package will enable wireless functionality only for SD-Access deployments with two supported topologies:

◦    The Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controller Software package can be enabled on Catalyst 9400 Series switches functioning as Co-Located Border and Control Plane.

◦    Catalyst 9800 Wireless Software Package can be enabled on Catalyst 9400 Series switches functioning as Fabric in a Box.

●      Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering eases new branch or campus device rollouts and can also be used for providing updates to an existing network.

●      Advanced security

◦    Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA)¹: You benefit from the power of machine learning to identify and take actions toward threats or anomalies in your network, including malware detection in encrypted traffic (without decryption) and distributed anomaly detection.

◦    AES-256² support with the powerful MACsec-256 encryption algorithm is available in hardware.

◦    Trustworthy solutions: Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for PnP tamper-proof device identity capability secures zero-touch provisioning by allowing your device to show a certificate to the server to be able to get onto your network.

Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series

Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series chassis

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series offers three chassis options and a wide range of line card options (Table 2). It provides a common architecture that can scale up to 400 ports. Cisco StackWise Virtual technology doubles this port density by virtually stacking two Catalyst 9400 modular switches in a single logical switch.

The Catalyst 9400 Series chassis is enterprise optimized with efficient side-to-side airflow and full front accessibility for all removable components, including supervisors, line cards, power supplies and fan tray. The chassis also supports optional rear accessibility for fan trays to enable efficient cable management. Catalyst 9400 Series chassis, supervisor, line cards, power supplies and fan trays have embedded RFID tags which facilitate easy asset and inventory management using commercial RFID readers.

Table 2.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series chassis features

Supervisor configuration

The Catalyst 9400 Series offers an industry-leading supervisor engine built for secure networks, IoT applications, next generation mobility and cloud adoption. Supervisor Engine-2 options (Sup-2, Sup-2XL) and Supervisor Engine-1 options (Sup-1, Sup-1XL, Sup-1XL-Y) are built with the latest Unified Access Data Plane ASIC future-proofed for next generation technologies with its programmable pipeline, microengine capabilities and template-based configurable allocation of Layer 2, Layer 3, forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs) and QoS entries.

Table 3.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Supervisor Engine maximum bandwidth per slot

Table 4 lists the minimum software requirements for the Cisco Catalyst 9400 supervisor engine.

Table 4.        Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine Software Minimum Requirements

Line card options

The Catalyst 9400 Series offers the ability to mix and match a range of line cards to support numerous LAN access, server connectivity, Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) or branch-office deployments. The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series supports the line cards listed in Table 5 by part number.

Table 5.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series line cards

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series has flexible interface types and port densities that allow you to mix and match network configurations to meet the specific needs of campus networks (Table 6).

Table 6.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Maximum port densities

Specifications

Physical specifications of Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series chassis

Table 7 lists physical specifications of the Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series chassis.

Table 7.        Physical specifications of Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series chassis

Power supply

There are three modes of operation supported by Cisco Catalyst 9400 power supplies. In all the modes the power supplies can be of type whether AC or DC.

Redundant N + N mode

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Chassis also supports N + N redundancy with N independent input circuits and safeguards against failure of N (+N) of the circuits as opposed to power supply unit failure.

Redundant N + 1 mode

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Chassis also supports N + 1 redundancy with N independent input circuits and safeguards against failure of one (+1) of the circuits as opposed to power supply unit failure.

Combined mode

In this mode the power available for the entire chassis is equal to the sum of the output power of both power supplies multiplied by the share ratio.

P = Power output of one power-supply unit.

Total combined mode power = P + (N-1)^* P^* (share ratio).

Tables 8 describe power supply specification for the Catalyst 9400 Series.

Table 8.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Power supply specifications

Note:       

●      Output power is per power supply unless otherwise stated.

●      Heat-dissipation numbers represent the power conversion losses of the power supply in operation.

●      The number of power devices supported depends upon the customer configuration.

Power supply indicators

●      Output Fail LED (per unit): RED.

●      Input Okay LED (per unit): Green.

●      ID LED (per unit): Blue.

Table 9.        Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series power-cord options

Fan trays

Each Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series uses dual serviceable fan trays for cooling. Cisco Catalyst 9400 switches can optionally be accessed from the rear for flexible cable management. The chassis is enterprise closet- optimized with side-to-side airflow. All fan trays are composed of multiple independently controlled fans with N+1 redundancy. If any single fan fails, the system will continue to operate without a degradation in cooling. Speeds of fans change dynamically to compensate for fan failure. Catalyst 9400 Series fans have a barometric sensor, which allows slower fan speed curves at lower altitudes. Catalyst 9400 Series fans also have individual fan Pulse-Wide Modulation (PWM) fine-tuning to reduce variability in fan Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) under throttled conditions. This allows for optimal acoustic performance at 60dB when the system is operating at 50% load.

Dual serviceable fan tray

Environmental conditions

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series require the following conditions:

●      Operating temperature.

●      Normal operating^* temperature and altitudes:

◦    23° to 113°F (-5 to +45°C), up to 6,000 feet (1800 m).

◦    23° to 104°F (-5 to +40°C), up to 10,000 feet (3000 m).

◦    ^*Minimum ambient temperature for cold startup is 0°C.

●      Short-term^** exceptional conditions:

◦    23° to 131°F (-5 to +55°C), up to 6,000 feet (1800 m).

◦    23° to 122°F (-5 to +50°C), up to 10,000 feet (3000 m).

◦    ^**Not more than following in one-year period: 96 consecutive hours, or 360 hours total, or 15 occurrences.

●      Storage temperature: -40° to 158°F (-40° to 70°C).

●      Relative humidity: 10 to 95 percent, noncondensing.

●      Operating altitude: -60 to 3000m.

MTBF information

Table 10 gives Mean-Time-Between-Failures (MTBF) information for different chassis.

Table 10.     MTBF information

Regulatory standards compliance

Table 11 lists the regulatory standards compliance supported by the Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series.

Table 11.     Regulatory standards compliance

Ordering information

Table 12 lists the ordering information for chassis, power supplies, supervisor engines and memory that are commonly used with the Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series.

Table 12.     Ordering information

Cisco Catalyst software SKUs

Table 13.      

Warranty

The Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series Switches come with a Cisco Enhanced Limited Lifetime Warranty (E-LLW) that includes Next-Business-Day (NBD) delivery of replacement hardware where available and 90 days of 8x5 Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support.

Your formal warranty statement, including the warranty applicable to Cisco software, appears in the information packet that accompanies your Cisco product. We encourage you to review the warranty statement shipped with your specific product carefully before use.

Cisco reserves the right to refund the purchase price as its exclusive warranty remedy. For further information about warranty terms, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/warranty.

Table 14 provides information about the E-LLW.

Table 14.     E-LLW details

Product sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives and performance is provided in Cisco’s CSR and sustainability reporting.

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