​Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series Switches

Introduction

Extend intent-based networking everywhere

Cisco^® Catalyst^® 9200 Series switches extend the power of intent-based networking and Catalyst 9000 hardware and software innovation to a broader set of deployments. With its family pedigree, Catalyst 9200 Series switches offer simplicity without compromise – it is secure, always on, and IT simplified.

As foundational building blocks for the Cisco Digital Network Architecture, Catalyst 9200 Series switches help customers simplify complexity, optimize IT, and reduce operational costs by leveraging intelligence, automation and human expertise that no other vendor can deliver regardless of where you are in the intent-based networking journey.

Catalyst 9200 Series switches provide security features that protect the integrity of the hardware as well as the software and all data that flows through the switch. It provides resiliency that keeps your business up and running seamlessly. Combine that with open APIs of Cisco IOS XE^® and programmability of the UADP ASIC technology, Catalyst 9200 Series switches give you what you need now with investment protection on future innovations.

With full PoE+ capability, power and fan redundancy, stacking bandwidth up to 160 Gbps, modular uplinks, Layer 3 feature support, and cold patching, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are the industry’s unparalleled solution with differentiated resiliency and progressive architecture for cost-effective branch-office access. Catalyst 9200 Series switches also provide operational choice of Cisco DNA Center, or cloud monitoring for Catalyst on Meraki dashboard.

Product overview

Product highlights

●      Full Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capability for up to 48 ports for C9200. Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capability for up to 12 ports, IEEE 802.3bt class 6 and Cisco UPOE capability for up to 8 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 models are powered by internal fixed power supply or optional power adapters, when not powered by upstream IEEE 802.3bt class 6 60W PSE.

●      Flexible power source options from line voltage AC, low voltage DC to High Voltage DC (HVDC) in C9200CX series provide the choices for customers to migrate to efficient DC micro grid powered by renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.

●      Flexible downlink options with data, PoE+, UPOE, UPOE with mGig for Wi-Fi 6/6E

●      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 on Meraki dashboard.

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.

Catalyst 9200L and 9200CX are not supported as Fabric Edge for SD-Access Wireless.

Catalyst 9200, 9200L and 9200CX do not support SD-Access Embedded Wireless Controller.

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 3.

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

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.

Cisco Catalyst 9200CX Series HVDC models can be powered by high voltage DC as well as line voltage AC with its default power supply. These switches support high efficiency and low energy consumption when connected to DC micro grid by avoiding multiple AC-DC conversions. The compatibility with AC also provides flexibility and investment protection for moving to DC power in the future.

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.

●      IEEE 802.3bt Class 6 and Cisco UPOE (up to 60W per port) is supported on Catalyst 9200CX Series mGig model. This facilitates delivery of network power to devices requiring higher power.

●      PoE Powered Device (PD) – Catalyst 9200CX-12T-2X2G can be powered through the uplink with IEEE 802.3bt class 6 or UPOE+ power from upstream switch.

●      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

¹Limited by port number and port rating (for example, 24 PoE+ 30W ports = 720W)

²PWR-C5-715WDC= and PWR-C6-715WDC= are available to order as spare only and supported in IOS-XE 17.8.1 and above