• Up to 48 ports of full Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capability • Resiliency with Field-Replaceable Units (FRU) and redundant power supply, fans, and modular uplinks • Flexible downlink options with data or PoE+ • Operational efficiency with optional backplane stacking, supporting stacking bandwidth up to 160 Gbps • UADP 2.0 Mini with integrated CPU offers customers optimized scale with better cost structure • Enhanced security with AES-128 MACsec encryption, policy-based segmentation, and trustworthy systems • Layer 3 capabilities, including OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, RIP, and routed access • Advanced network monitoring using Full Flexible NetFlow • Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access): • Simplified operations and deployment with policy-based automation from edge to cloud managed with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) • Network assurance and improved resolution time through Cisco DNA Center • Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering to ease new branch or campus device rollouts or updates to an existing network • Cisco IOS XE: A Common Licensing based operating system for the enterprise Cisco Catalyst 9000 product family with support for model-driven programmability and streaming telemetry • ASIC with programmable pipeline and micro-engine capabilities, along with template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality of Service (QoS) entries
