Cisco Catalyst Switch Comparison 9300, 9300L, 9200, 9200L, 1000

one of the questions that i always get asked is which end user switch is right for my organization and in today's video that's what we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna answer for you and if you're new to my channel go ahead click that subscribe button if you like today's video give it a thumbs up so in today's episode what we're going to cover is the desktop switches from cisco that end users would typically plug into so that's going to be the 9300 the 9300l the 9200 the 9200l and then that catalyst 1000 that kind of came out a little while ago and i'm going to take you guys through what i think most people care about those switches and then hopefully by the end of today's video you're more knowledgeable and you can kind of go ahead and figure out which switch would be right for your organization so let's jump so the way that i did this is i created this matrix in powerpoint and i put all the switches from the 9300 down to the down to the catalyst 1000 on here and as i talk through the features underneath it we're going to light them all up so at the top i've got a list of some common features number one all these switches they're switches they can do layer two number two here poe plus all these switches support poe plus on there that's 30 watts of power you really need that today guys because all the new access points that are out there need more than the 15.4 watts of standard poe power all the new 80211 ax aps that are out there need more than that then the flavors that these things come in so i can either get them in 24 port or i can get them in 48 port some of the switches you could even get them an 8-port if you needed to perpetual poe so really interesting feature really cool feature that cisco came out with so what that allows me to do is if the switch needs to reboot for whatever reason we're still going to provide poe power on those ports so things like phones access points if the switch reboots we do not need to reboot those devices they stay up while the switch goes into reboot phase and then the last thing on here that all these have in common is the enhanced limited lifetime warranty so that's really good if you go you know maybe you're not purchasing smartnet or maybe smartnet lapses so what that gives you is when you buy the switch you get number one 90 days of tax support then in a year two years you know whatever that the the switch might have a problem might go down you need a replacement for that switch the enhanced limited lifetime warranty allows you to rma that switch you call up cisco tell them that it's broken they send you a new switch so let's get into you know what kind of sets these switches apart the first thing we'll talk about is stacking capabilities so we'll start on the left here the 9300 supports something called stack wise 480. that's a 400 giga 480 gigabit backplane stacking capability the stacking capability is built into the switch you don't need anything extra you just need the cables we go over to the 9300 l that's a stack wise 360 and you need a kit so it's first 360 gig on the back plane but in order to get stacking you need to actually purchase stacking modules that go into the back there so when you order that switch just keep that in mind then if we go down to the 9200 that's stack wise 160 160 gig on the back plane and you need the ket 9200 l stack wise 80 80 gig on the back plane and you need the kit then on the kettle's 1000 that actually does not have back plane stacking capabilities but you can stack it via the uplinks that specific switch has static uplinks only so when you're purchasing that if you do plan on stacking it you may want to go the 10 gig variation on the uplinks so that way you have 10 gigs between the switch if you don't and you go with the one gig variation you're only gonna have you know one gig between the switch between the switches there next we'll talk about the uplinks for the rest of these switches here so the 9300 and 9200 those can be purchased with modular uplinks really nice feature so you might start out with 10 gig uplinks today but hey 40 gig is not too far off in the future and i might want that capability or 25 gig so you can actually replace that module all the way to the right side of those switches pop a new module in and you went from 10 gig to 40 gig on there the 9300 l 9200 l and the 1000 you can't replace those up links they're static they're fixed so when you're purchasing the switch you need to buy it with the variation that you think you're going to need for now and the future next we'll talk about some of the routing capabilities in these switches they are switches but they cannot actually also route here too so i put in here advanced layer 3 and that's pretty much the same thing between 9 300 all the way down to the 9200 and what i mean by advanced layer 3 is that you can do things like ospf eigrp rip you know those types of protocols are supported here with the catalyst 1000 you can sort a route with it but it's only going to be static routes there's no advanced routing capabilities that are able to be purchased for the catalyst 1000 then we kind of get into the subscriptions and the licensing models for each one of these switches so the 9300 down to the 9200 l they come with a perpetual license so you can either get them with network advantage or network essentials network advantage is going to give you all those those fancy routing protocols network essentials giving you give you maybe more the light routing protocols you know things like that there's a data sheet you can go through and there's nice checklist checklist box that'll show you what you get between the advantage and the essentials that's your perpetual you buy the switch comes with those features on there they never go away then on the 9300 to 9200 you also are required day one when you buy the switch to get a subscription on them don't get too carried away or don't get too worried about the subscription you know you don't necessarily have to renew that if you don't see value in the dna subscription that you have to purchase so you have to either purchase dna essentials or dna advantage with it really cool stuff i do encourage you guys to check that out if you do have a dna center appliance and there is a dna cloud version coming out as well but that's that's a really good stuff really good management platform for your switches but if again if you don't find value you don't actually have to renew that that subscription and then on the catalyst 1000 there's no sort of concept of a subscription because you can't actually manage it or monitor it inside a dna center next we've got the net flow capabilities so 9300 down to the 9200 l those all support full net net flow on all their ports and uplink ports but then you get down to the catalyst 1000 that's only gonna support s flow that's a sample type of net flow so still good for things like hey i just want to get statistics where's the majority of my traffic going sfl will be able to tell you that but you're not going to be able to get every single session what's going on security threats that type of stuff you have to go with a switch that supports full net flow in order to get that next we move on to the operating systems that are on each one of these switches so the 9300s through the 9200 l's they all support ios xe and the catalyst 1000 still supports ios so if you guys don't know what the differences are between these ios xe was a new operating system that cisco came out with i don't know seven years ago whatever it's been now and it's a modular operating system so with the old ios if i wanted to do a update on a portion of it i'd have to replace the entire operating system it's very monolithic if a process crashed for whatever reason i couldn't just go in and restart that process i had to probably reboot the entire switch in order for that to work with ios xe it's actually running on top of linux and i can restart different processes if i need to or i can upgrade different processes if i need to now you notice there that the 9200s say ios xe light the reason that those say light is because they do not support something called containers on the 9300s i can put containers on my switches and i can actually load applications on them i might want to put wireshark on there or maybe i want to put a wireless lan controller on there i can do things like that right on the switches and use the cpu and the memory that's in the 9300s to make that happen next let's roll into dna center so dna center and sd access software-defined access supported on the 9300s all the way down to the 9200 l's and like we talked about before no sort of subscription no access to dna center so again not supported on the catalyst 1000 now we move into the redundant power supplies so rps's 9300 down to 9200 you can get them there's an extra module slot in the back you pop in the redundant power supply and you've got redundancy there no sort of that no such option on the kls 1000 mgate capabilities this is one of those gotta have features all the new access points that are out there these days they all support over one gigabits per second so instead of having to go and run 10 gig out there or anything like that and you've got old older cat 5e cable and you still want to use it you can use mgig mgig is multi-gigabit ethernet and now i can get two and a half gigabits per second five gigabits per second to that access point even on older cat5e cable you need that for anything that's 802.11 ax any of the new standard stuff that's out there then we move into encrypted traffic analytics that's only offered on the 9300 series switches and what that does and if you guys haven't seen the demo of this you've got to check it out it's probably one of my favorite features on the 9300s but that looks at all the encrypted traffic on your switches sends it over to stealthwatch and stealthwatch is able in part with the 9300s to tell you if there's malicious traffic even if it's encrypted huge huge you can't you can't do that anywhere else inside your network unless you have those 9 300 switches so if your traffic is being encrypted and you may not know it's encrypted because there might be some malware application on there that's encrypting the traffic and sending it out or maybe it's even staying local eta will allow you to figure out if that stuff is actually malicious or maybe it's maybe it's actually safe containers i kind of talked about this when we talked about ios xe so containers can be possible with the 9300s again you can load up applications such as wireshark or perfmon if you wanted to and then because they support containers we can do the embedded wireless controller in here so that's the 9800 wireless controller you can load that right onto your 9300 switches and you don't need another wireless controller out there for a branch office let's say then we move into the upoe so we talked about poe plus but what if i need more power than that what if i'm doing poe lighting let's say or maybe i need to light up a monitor upoe allows me to get 60 watts of power per switch port and that's only supported again on the 9300 series switches but that's not even the latest and greatest the latest and greatest that's out there for power over ethernet is something called upoe plus and that'll actually give you 90 watts of power per port on these switches again only on 9300s i started to see this becoming a necessity when you really start to do power over ethernet lighting a lot of times you daisy chain lights together and you need to pull more than 60 watts of power you need to get to that 90 90 watt range you need upoe plus in order to do that then one of the last things on here to touch on the 9300s is stack power only available on the 9300 not available on 9300l what stack power is is i've got my stacking cables going on the back side of my switches but let's say i didn't buy a redundant power supply for each switch and let's say i've got a stack of three to make it simple i can put a redundant power supply in maybe the top switch and stack the power cables together if i lose a power supply and let's say the bottom switch that switch can actually stay up and running without any power supplies inside of it that are working it's going to draw power from the other two switches that are in the stack and they're redundant power supply really cool feature really good feature for people that need to make sure that their access layer is up 100 of the time and then the last one in here i kind of went back and forth on whether i thought we would need to talk about this because again this is more toward the axis layer you don't really run bgp on the access layer but it is one of those those features that comes up time and again where people might be using this as more of a swiss army knife and they're going to have internet connectivity plugged in and you need to do something with bgp so if you need bgp the only one that's going to support that is the actual 9300 switch not the 9300l and obviously none of the rest of them so guys with that i hope you kind of figure out which switch would be right for your organization for me you know it's a clear winner 9300 it can do everything i made an entire video on why the 9300 is the best switch that ever existed out there and i still don't think any competitor is close to even touching that thing it's just ridiculous what that what that switch can do so again i hope this was beneficial to you guys if you like this video if you like this type of thing let me know in the comments give me a thumbs up and if you want to see more of it let me know say say something else tell me to do a video on another project so with that i'll let you guys go thanks a lot for watching

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Keywords: Cisco switch comparison, Catalyst switch comparison, 9300, 9300L, 9200, 9200L, 1000, Catalyst 9300, catalyst 9300L, catalyst 9200, catalyst 9200L, catalyst 1000, catalyst, Whats the difference, Cisco

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Length: 14min 39sec (879 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 14 2020