Product overview

Product highlights

●      Full Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capability for up to 48 ports for C9200 and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capability for up to 12 ports for C9200CX. Available in fan less variants for C9200CX.

●      Resiliency with Field-Replaceable Units (FRU) and redundant power supply, fans, and modular uplinks for C9200. C9200CX are powered by internal fixed power supply or optional power adapters, when not powered by upstream 802.3bt type4 90W PSE.

●      Flexible downlink options with data, PoE+ or mGig

●      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 on C9200 and AES-256 MACsec encryption for C9200CX variants, policy-based segmentation, and trustworthy solutions for the whole C9200 family

●      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

●      Cloud monitoring for Catalyst option

Features and benefits Platform details

Switch models and configurations

Table 1.        Catalyst 9200 Series models and configurations

¹ Catalyst 9200 standalone and stack can support 25 Access Tunnels (for fabric enabled APs).

Note: Over the top fabric deployments eventually migrating to fabric wireless architecture should consider this limit during design/deployment

² C9200-24PB-A, C9200-48PB-A SKUs supports 32 Virtual Networks. These SKUs cannot be stacked with C9200 SKUs with 4VNs

The Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series is made up of modular (C9200), fixed (C9200L) and compact (C9200CX) switch models.

Figure 1.           

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches

Table 2.        Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switch configurations

Network modules

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches come with modular or fixed uplinks as indicated in Table 1. With modular SKUs, the field-replaceable network modules provide infrastructure investment protection by allowing a nondisruptive migration from 1G to 10G and beyond. When you purchase the switch, you can choose from the network modules described in Table 2.

Figure 2.           

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switch network modules

Table 3.        Network module part numbers and descriptions

¹ Supported only on C9200-24PXG, C9200-48PXG

² Not supported on C9200-24PXG, C9200-48PXG

For additional details, please read our FAQ: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9000/nb-09-cat-9k-faq-cte-en.pdf.

Platform resiliency

Power supplies

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches support dual field-replaceable power supplies (Figure 3). Each switch ships with one default power supply, and a second identical power supply can be purchased with the initial order or can be added later. The second power supply can provide redundancy or additional power to PoE+ ports as needed.

Intelligent PoE+

●      IEEE 802.3at PoE+ (up to 30W per port) is supported on Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches to lower the total cost of ownership for deployments that incorporate Cisco IP phones, Cisco Aironet^® wireless access points, or other standards-compliant PoE+ end devices. PoE+ removes the need to supply wall power to PoE-enabled devices and eliminates the cost of adding electrical cabling and circuits that would otherwise be necessary in IP phone and WLAN deployments. With Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches, PoE+ power allocation is dynamic, and power mapping scales up to a maximum of 1440W of PoE+ power.

●      Perpetual PoE is supported on Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches, and maintains the PoE+ power during a switch reload. This is important for critical endpoints such as medical devices and for Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints such as PoE-powered lights, so that there is no disruption during a switch reboot.

●      Fast PoE: When power is restored to a switch, Fast PoE starts delivering power to endpoints without waiting for the operating system to fully load, thereby speeding up the time for the endpoint to start up.

Figure 3.           

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switch dual redundant power supplies

Table 4 lists the PoE+ power availability for each model.

Table 4.        PoE+ Power with primary and secondary power supplies

^*Limited by port number and port rating (for example, 24 PoE+ 30W ports = 720W)

Stacking

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switch models are designed for stacking switches as a single virtual switch, enabling customers to have a single management plane and control plane for up to 384 access ports.

Table 5 lists the supported stacking options.

Table 5.        Supported stacking options

Mixed stacking is not supported. You cannot stack fixed (C9200L SKUs) with modular (C9200 SKUs) models, or other Catalyst switches, e.g. Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR Series. Stacking not available on C9200CX Series switches.

The optional StackWise-160 and StackWise-80 kits consist of two adapters and a stacking cable. The default stacking cable is 0.5 m, but options of 1 m and 3 m are also available.

Table 6 lists the stacking accessories.

Table 6.        Stacking accessories

Figure 4.           

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switch stacked units

Fan

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches also come with dual fans and support redundancy. Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches support redundancy with dual fans. On the C9200 SKUs, the fan units are field-replaceable, whereas on the fixed C9200L and C9200CX SKUs, the fan units are fixed.

Table 7 lists the fan module part number.

Table 7.        Fan modules

Performance and scalability

Table 8 lists performance and scalability metrics for Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches. Table 9 lists the bandwidth specifications.

Performance specifications

Table 8.        Performance specifications

Bandwidth specifications

Table 9.        Bandwidth specifications

^* Measured with 64 byte packets