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Migration from Catalyst 3K to Catalyst 9K

How to Migrate Catalyst 3K to Catalyst 9K?

Introduction of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches has made a lot of enterprises thinking about changing their out of dated Catalyst devices to the latest series. Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch is one of most Cisco’s famous and popular access switches which you might find it in every branches all over the world. Currently, Cisco Catalyst 9300 series switches can be considered as a trustworthy replacement for Catalyst 3850 switches which can enable new features all over the network.

Migration from Catalyst 3K to Catalyst 9K

Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches besides their enhanced hardware and flexible and modular IOS XE, are able to represents Cisco Software-defined access architecture. This innovative Cisco architecture can help enterprises enabling Software –denied networking (SDN) technology within their networks in order to automate, manage and monitor numerous applications and their traffic in their network.

Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches

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Customers can use the following chart in order to map the former Cisco Catalyst 3850 models to the Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches models:

3650 PIDs 9300 PID Short Description
WS-C3650-24TS

WS-C3650-24TD

C9300-24T 24-Port GbE with Modular Uplink
WS-C3650-48TS

WS-C3650-48TD

C9300-48T 48-Port GbE with Modular Uplink
WS-C3650-24PS

WS-C3650-24PD

C9300-24P 24-Port GbE PoE+ ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3650-48PS

WS-C3650-48PD

C9300-48P 48-Port GbE PoE+ ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3650-48FS

WS-C3650-48FD

C9300-48U 48-Port GbE UPOE ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3650-8X24UQ C9300L-24UXG-4X Stackable 16 10/100/1000 Mbps and 8 Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (100 Mbps or 1/2.5/5/10 Gbps) UPOE ports; 4×10 GE SFP+ fixed uplink ports
WS-C3650-12X48UQ C9300L-48UXG-4X Stackable 36 10/100/1000 Mbps and 12 Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (100 Mbps or 1/2.5/5/10 Gbps) UPOE ports; 4×10 GE SFP+ fixed uplink ports
WS-C3650-12X48UZ C9300L-48UXG-2Q Stackable 36 10/100/1000 Mbps and 12 Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (100 Mbps or 1/2.5/5/10 Gbps) UPOE ports; 2×40 GE QSFP+ fixed uplink ports
3750 PIDs 9300 PID Short Description
WS-C3750X-24T C9300-24T 24-Port GbE with Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-48T C9300-48T 48-Port GbE with Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-24P C9300-24P 24-Port GbE PoE+ ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-48P C9300-48P 48-Port GbE PoE+ ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-48PF C9300-48U 48-Port GbE UPOE ports with Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-12S C9300-24S 24-Port GbE SFP With Modular Uplink
WS-C3750X-24S C9300-24S 24-Port GbE SFP With Modular Uplink
3850 PIDs 9300 PID Short Description
WS-C3850-24T C9300-24T Catalyst 9300 24-port data-only switch
WS-C3850-24P C9300-24P Catalyst 9300 24-port PoE+ switch
WS-C3850-24U C9300-24U Catalyst 9300 24-port POE switch
WS-C3850-24XU C9300-24UX Catalyst 9300 24-port m-Gig and UPOE switch
WS-C3850-48T C9300-48T Catalyst 9300 48-port data-only switch
WS-C3850-48P C9300-48P Catalyst 9300 48-port PoE+ switch
WS-C3850-48U C9300-48U Catalyst 9300 48-port UPOE switch
WS-C3850-12X48U C9300-48UXM Cisco Catalyst 9300 48-port 2.5G (12 Multi-Gigabit) switch

You can find Uplink module types in the below figure:

C9300 Network Modules

Network Module Description
C9300 Network Modules
C9300-NM-4G This module has four 1 GE SFP module slots. Any combination of standard SFP modules are supported.
C9300-NM-4M This module has four Multi-Gigabit Ethernet module slots.
C9300-NM-2Q This module has two 40 GE QSFP+ module slots.
C9300-NM-8X This module has eight 10 GE SFP+ module slots.
C9300-NM-2Y This module has two 25 GE SFP28 module slots.
C9300-NM-BLANK This is a blank module.
C9300X Network Modules
C9300X-NM-2C This module has two 40 GE/100 GE slots with a QSFP+ connector in each slot.
C9300X-NM-8M This module has four Multi-Gigabit Ethernet module slots.
C9300X-NM-8Y This module has eight 25 GE/10 GE/1 GE slots with an SFP+ port in each slot.
C9300X-NM-BLANK This is a blank module.

Customers should be noticed, despite of some Catalyst 3K models such as C3850-24XS-S, which Supports SFP+, Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches do not support SFP+ downlinks. This feature on Catalyst 9K Switches is available from Catalyst 9500 series switches.

3650 PIDs 9300 PID Short Description
WS-C3850-24XS-S C9300-24S 24-Port GbE SFP With Modular Uplink

 

 

Customers must be noted that all Cisco Catalyst devices will operate with their minimum switching capabilities after shipment and all products need online Cisco smart licensing or offline PLR licensing in order to activate full functionalities. Also, for enabling Cisco SD-Access features on Cisco Catalyst 9000 family, Cisco DNA licenses subscription purchasing would be necessary.

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