/mcpData sheet Cisco public © 2025 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Cloud management: Migrate Catalyst 9300 Series switches to the Cisco Meraki® dashboard to unlock centralized management and monitoring of devices while retaining advanced features like a cloud-hosted command-line interface terminal. Learn more. • Investment protection: Catalyst 9300X redundant fans and power supplies, data stack, and StackPower cables are backward compatible with the Catalyst 9300 Series. The Foundation of Software-Defined Access Advanced persistent security threats. The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Mobility everywhere. Cloud adoption. All of these 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 the rollout of business services. The Cisco Networking Cloud with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) is the network fabric that powers business. It 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 that include: • Simplified device deployment • Unified management of wired and wireless networks • Network virtualization and segmentation • Group-based policies • Context-based analytics Cloud Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) fabric capabilities are supported for Cisco Catalyst 9300/X models being managed from the Meraki dashboard. Learn more about cloud management and cloud fabric here. Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software subscriptions offer a valuable and flexible way to buy software for the access layer, WAN, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco DNA, and Meraki software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier. Cisco software provides: • 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 Service (SWSS). • Lower cost of entry with the new Cisco Catalyst Software Subscription for Switching support model. • Choose what management model works best for you – on-premises, virtual, or in the cloud. • Access to end-to-end network visibility with Cisco Spaces, service assurance through Cisco ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics, and Cisco ASAc firewall (with Cisco Catalyst and Cisco DNA Advantage licenses). Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches let you manage your entire switching structure as a single, converged component. With one management system, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and one policy for wired and wireless networks, they offer an efficient way to provide more secure access.