/mcpData sheet Cisco public © 2025 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. QoS • Superior QoS: The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series offers Gigabit Ethernet speeds with intelligent services that keep traffic flowing smoothly, even at 10 times the normal network speed. Industry-leading mechanisms for cross- stack marking, classification, and scheduling deliver superior performance for data, voice, and video traffic at wire speed. Superior QoS includes granular wireless bandwidth management and fair sharing, 802.1p class of service (CoS) and Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field classification, shaped round robin (SRR) scheduling, Committed Information Rate (CIR), and eight egress queues per port. Service discovery • Multicast DNS (mDNS) gateway: This service discovery gateway capability facilitates sharing of services advertised using the Apple mDNS (Bonjour) protocol, such as printers, Apple TVs, and file services across the network. Additionally, the administrator can create policies defining which services can be seen and accessed by the users in the network. This capability facilitates a BYOD rollout. Smart operation • Simplified Campus Automation is designed to optimize the discovery and configuration of devices in your network with a more streamlined simple and easy-to-use automation tool. With features such as simplified discovery, IT can discover devices within the network with just a few steps. Also available is a more streamlined GUI that provides a simplified view of switch configurations and software details on a port-by-port basis. Cloud management with IOS XE: Cloud management with IOS XE simplifies network operations by providing a centralized, intuitive dashboard that enables IT teams to manage, configure, and monitor all devices in real time. With features like zero-touch provisioning, automated firmware updates, and port-level visibility, cloud management reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and delivers end-to-end visibility across the network. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches provide flexibility in cloud management by offering the ability to choose the configuration source of each device managed from the Meraki dashboard. Configuration Source: Cloud: This operating mode offers the full cloud management experience. Device configurations are managed via the Meraki user interface and delivered entirely from the cloud. This capability also offers a read-only Cloud CLI terminal to view the entire running configuration or perform advanced troubleshooting using IOS XE show commands. Configuration Source: Device: This capability is an evolution of Cloud Monitoring. With device configuration, users can onboard their device to the cloud to access central monitoring and troubleshooting tools, as well as a Cloud CLI terminal to execute read/write commands. Configurations are managed via local console, Secure Shell (SSH), or CLI and remain local to the device. To learn more about cloud management with IOS XE, see Cloud Management with IOS XE. • Meraki dashboard monitoring and management: Catalyst 9300 Series Switches can be ordered or migrated to be Meraki dashboard managed, combining the simplicity of the Meraki dashboard with the power of Catalyst 9000 switching. All configuration and monitoring is performed natively in the dashboard.