Per-port PoE power sensing measures actual power being drawn, enabling more intelligent control of
powered devices. The PoE MIB provides proactive visibility into power usage and allows you to set different
power-level thresholds.
• RFID tags: Catalyst 9300 Series Switches have an embedded RFID tag that facilitates easy asset and inventory
management using commercial RFID readers.
• Blue beacon: Catalyst 9300 Series Switches support a blue beacon LED for easy identification of the switch
being accessed.
Open standards-based fabric
The Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches support modern fabric technologies such as VXLAN with Border
Gateway Protocol Ethernet VPN (BGP-EVPN) control plane, with open APIs. This technology provides the flexibility
to build open standards-based fabrics to secure infrastructure, users, and data. This fabric architecture provides
rich unicast and multicast protocol support to optimally route or bridge traffic as well as support for integrated
campus services, all of which can be automated via open APIs to effectively configure and monitor the network.
Programmability
Cisco IOS XE provides open standards-based APIs such as NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI to simplify
provisioning and configuration, allowing network administrators to save time when provisioning new network
devices and to prevent the human errors that often are a byproduct of manual configuration. Integrating ZTP with
various DevOps toolkits allows network administrators to drastically reduce the time and resources needed to
onboard a device to their network. The ability to collect real-time statistics through model-driven telemetry through
gRPC and gNMI allows administrators to integrate with many health monitoring tools to optimize their environments
and to troubleshoot and provide alerts about any potential problems.