9400 Series switches support five supervisors optimized for various campus deployments– access and aggregation. Along with Cisco’s campus-optimized 100G and 25G optics, these modular platforms are now capable of supporting architectural transformations with industry-leading investment protection.

The Cisco Catalyst C9400X-SUP-2XL supervisor engine is designed for the core and aggregation with 100G uplinks (Figure 1).

Figure 1.            

C9400X-SUP-2XL supervisor engine

The Cisco Catalyst C9400X-SUP-2XL supervisor engine is a next-generation supervisor optimized for the enterprise-class core and aggregation layers, supporting up to 480 Gbps per slot with 100G uplinks. Supervisor Engine-2XL allows for unique investment protection through a 100G uplink connectivity option, which is becoming a popular alternative to 40G in the core.

The Cisco Catalyst C9400X-SUP-2XL supervisor engine hardware is capable of supporting advanced routing and infrastructure services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); software-defined access control and border capabilities (such as a host-tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, and VPN Routing and Forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]); and hardware capable flexible ASIC templates to create resources to optimize table sizes for different places in the network.

The Cisco Catalyst C9400X-SUP-2 supervisor engine is designed for the Access with 100G uplinks (Figure 2).

Figure 2.            

C9400X-SUP-2 supervisor engine

The Cisco Catalyst C9400X-SUP-2 supervisor engine is a next-generation supervisor optimized for the enterprise-class access layers, supporting up to 240 Gbps per slot with 100G uplinks.

The Cisco Catalyst C9400-SUP-1XL-Y supervisor engine is designed for the core and aggregation with 25G uplinks (Figure 3).

Figure 3.            

C9400-SUP-1XL-Y supervisor engine

The Cisco Catalyst C9400-SUP-1XL-Y supervisor engine is a next-generation supervisor optimized for the enterprise-class core and aggregation layers, supporting up to 240 Gbps per slot with 25G uplinks. Supervisor Engine-1XL-Y allows for unique investment protection through a 25G uplink connectivity option, which is becoming a popular alternative to 10G in the core. The Cisco Catalyst C9400-SUP-1XL-Y supervisor engine hardware is capable of supporting advanced routing and infrastructure services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); software-defined access control and border capabilities (such as a host-tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, and VPN Routing and Forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]); and flexible ASIC templates to create resources to optimize table sizes for different places in the network.

The Catalyst C9400-SUP-1XL supervisor engine is designed for the core and aggregation layers (Figure 4).

Figure 4.            

C9400-SUP-1XL supervisor engine

The Cisco Catalyst C9400-SUP-1XL supervisor engine is a next-generation supervisor optimized for enterprise-class the core and aggregation layers, supporting up to 240 Gbps. The C9400-SUP-1XL supervisor engine hardware is capable of supporting advanced routing and infrastructure services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS); software-defined access control and border capabilities (such as a host tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, and VPN routing and forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]); flexible ASIC templates to create resources to optimize table sizes for different places in the network; and network system virtualization with Cisco StackWise Virtual technology, which is critical for placement in the campus core.

The Cisco Catalyst C9400-SUP-1 supervisor engine is designed for access (Figure 5).

Figure 5.            

C9400-SUP-1 supervisor engine

Features

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 the C9400-SUP-1XL-Y supervisor engine

●      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

●      384 ports of non-blocking 10/100/1000 RJ-45 ports

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

●      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)

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

●      Cisco UPOE+ (90 W) capabilities on 384 ports

●      Cisco UPOE (60W)/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

●      Support for both static and dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT)

●      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

●      Support app hosted Cisco Spaces natively on the CPU complex. Cisco Spaces IoT Services on Catalyst 9000 switches bridges wired smart building technology using the power of data to help speed return to a trusted workplace and the inevitable return-to-office.

●      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 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

●      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 systems: 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