C8300-2N2S-6T - Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platform with 2 SM Slots, 2 NIM slots, 6x Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 ports

Cisco C8300-2N2S-6T

Features:

• 6x 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections
• 2x Service Module slot
• 2x Network Interface Module slot
• 2RU form factor
• Up to 2 Gbps SD-WAN Ipsec Throughput
• 6000 SD-WAN Overlay tunnels

Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms (Catalyst 8300) with Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software deliver Cisco’s secure, cloud-scale Catalyst SD-WAN solution for the branch. The Catalyst 8300 Series is purpose-built for high performance and integrated SD-WAN Services along with flexibility to deliver security and networking services together from the cloud or on premises. It provides higher WAN port density and a redundant power supply capability. The Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms have a wide variety of interface options to choose from—ranging from lower and higher module density with backward compatibility to a variety of existing WAN, LAN, voice, and compute modules. Powered by Cisco IOS XE, fully programmable software architecture, and API support, these platforms can facilitate automation at scale to achieve zero-touch IT capability while migrating workloads to the cloud. Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms also come with Trustworthy Solutions 2.0 infrastructure that secures the platforms against threats and vulnerabilities with integrity verification and remediation of threats.

The Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms are well suited for medium-sized and large enterprise branch offices for high WAN IPSec performance with integrated Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN services.

Dynamic core allocation architecture will allow you to tailor the Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge platform’s multicore resources to fit your business needs. You can choose between two core allocations.

●      Service-oriented core allocation has the platform’s Multicore resources set to balance throughput with providing adequate resources for containerized services. Choose this if integrated, container based, services are required. It will allow for KVM and/or Docker container-based applications on up to 5 cores, depending on platform. This is the factory default core allocation with which all C8300 platforms are shipped.

●      Data plane heavy core allocation has the platform’s Multicore resources optimized for high traffic throughput. Choose this architecture when throughput is of higher priority, A Data plane heavy architecture will on 8-core platforms completely remove resources for containerized services, whereas on the 12-core platform, C8300-2N2S-4T2X, it will reduce service plane resources from 5 to 4 cores.

●      In order to maximize the platforms performance and your investment, it’s recommended to change into a Data plane heavy core allocation when container-based services are not being required.