This hardware technical guide provides a product description, specifications, and compliance information for the Cisco Embedded Service 9300 Series Switches.

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The Cisco ESS 9300 is a Small Form Factor (SFF) embedded Ethernet switch card. The compact design simplifies integration and offers the system integrator the ability to use the Cisco ESS 9300 in a wide variety of applications. The Cisco ESS 9300 consists of one switch card. There are no cooling plates sold with it. It is up to the system integrator to design a thermal solution. The ESS-9300-10X-E board supports up to 10 ports of 10 GE fiber. Thermal power is 35 Watts.

Note	Refer to the Cisco ESS 9300 data sheet for a complete list of available product IDs.

This guide is for the system integrator who is integrating the Cisco ESS 9300 into a custom end product.

The ESS-9300 is a ruggedized 10GigE Embedded platform for tactical, outdoor, and mobile installations. Some of the key hardware features are:

• Small Form Factor
• 10 Optical 10G
• Software: IOS-XE, Network Essentials and Network Advantage
• Industrial temperature: -40°C to +85°C
• ARM Quad-Core A53
• 4GB DDR4 DRAM memory capacity with ECC
• 2.5GB User Accessible Flash
• 3.3V and 5V power input
• Anti-counterfeit chip and Secure Boot
• RTC with customer provided power backup
• Push Button that supports the Zeroize feature
• Two alarm inputs and One alarm output
• Two USB 2.0 Host interface for USB Flash Memory Device, one can be converted to SDHC
• One USB 2.0 Console Interface.
• One RS-232 Console Interface.

The following pictures show the Board Layout. The dimensions are 4.331 in X 3.346 in (110mm X 85mm).