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For the first time in the industry, a single family of fixed, stackable, and modular switches are running on the same IOS-XE operating system along with a common ASIC.
Cisco’s Catalyst 9200 rounds out the lower end of its incredible Catalyst 9000 family of switches. The 9200 is designed for small, medium, and branch deployments, providing greater modularity, redundancy, and stackability than the Catalyst 2960 it replaces.
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Introduce
Cat9k launch to introduce IBN
Cat9200 launch to extend IBN to customers who were not able to take advantage of this network architecture mainly our small medium and branch depolyments
What and how of Catalyst 9200
Hardware
SW that powers this HW
Work together seamlessly and provide some very cool features
Makes C9200 the most capable switch in this class of switches.
Part of existing C9k series
Same ASIC and software
3 pillars –
Resiliency – HW and SW Level
Security – TWS and MACSEC-128
Programmability – introducing standard APIs and making Day0 onboarding extremely easy
Entire HW and SW is. Built around these 3 pillars
Features consistent to Cat9k
Bult in RFID – inventory scanning easy
Blue beacon
Offerings – 24 and 48 1Gig downlink ports and 1 and 10G uplink ports
Full POE+ compared to 2960x. - increased POE budget
HW spec improved –
BT ready – in future SW enables OTA using BT
Modular uplinks on 9200
Hot swappable –
Swap 1G with 10G , no need of new HW
On running switch swap them – switch will keep running
Fixed uplinks –
Replace HW if want to upgrade
Auto sensing
Huge competitive differentiator
Platinum rated PS in this class of switches
Highly efficient PS – power consumption will be low , there will be less heat and will require less cooling . Not only saves power , reduces TCO because of redcued cooling and power requirements of the switch
Redundant PS
Secondary PS should be exactly the same
FRU -
Another update – all stackable , 8 member stack .
BW taken to next level and introduced HIGH availability features
9200 supports 160Gbps
9200L – 80 Gbps
Similar archi as 9300
Benefit of stackwise – users get SSO – active and. Standby .
No Mix stacking - have different Stacking BW
Same IOS XE and license – consistent to C9300
From orderability – stacking kit needs to be ordered separately .
9200 and 9300 stack cables are different . The Pins on stack adapter are different .
We cannot stack 9200 and 9200L together because RAM capacities are different
when we form a stack 9200 have more mac learning capacity 9200L has less . how will the sync happen . All the features are checked.
Both have 2 fans
Fixed on 9200L , 9200 – modular
In case of failure buy new fan and hot swap it in 9200 and switch will run fine
These are redundant – switch wont go down if a fan fails . Variable fan speeds , pick up the load and keep operating , noise level would vary based on how many fans .
Resiliency and redundancy built at every level
Long way in ensuring systems is always available
We wanted to optimize feature/functionality with right price . Thus we cant mix and match the PS , like have a combination of 1000W and 600W because of increased cost
this helps us with saving cost at DF site
the more options you give, the higher the cost
not optimal for distis
Silver Rated : 80% efficient
Platinum Rated : 90% efficient
If we insert a different PS , error message on console and SW will shut the PS
Power supply highlights :
Maximum output 12V/125W at 220V/110V AC input
For 1000W and 600W PS, efficiency is >90% at 50% to 100% load when AC input is 230Vac.
At 115Vac input, the efficiency is very close to 90%.
For 125W PS, efficiency is less than 90% at 50% to 100% load.
Power hold-up time is >20 ms at 90% load
Change photo here
Arch is really simple but powerful
Powered by UADP 2.0 mini – optimized UADP2.0 on C9300
Another differentiator – embedded CPU on ASIC – first catalyst – meet the cost structure and deliver all the innovations Cat9k sells on .
Programmable asic – future proof for any new protocol that comes up
Buffer and scale way higher than 2k and competition – 6mb buffer , 16k netflow records , 160g stack BW , tcam much higher compared to existing 2k , bandwidth 100G
Arch is really simple , single core single asic and embedded cpu , but very powerful
ASIC capabilities – not limited to 9300-9500 also for 9200
Recirculation – multiple recirculations required before packet goes out , we can do that within the asic itself
Microengines – do features like macsec. At hw level without any compromise .
Adaptable tables – use unused part of tables if not used by one certain feature
Capabilties of uadp asic carried over to 9200
Same as 9k
Consistency not just outer
Also at asic level
Exactly the same with reduced scale
“As far as the QoS scalability is concerned, you have now 1024 class-maps on the ingress, 512 on the egress. Some table-maps, which are used for your wireless applications, as well as for wired [unintelligible] if you have any. Ad then there are 2000 policers, and then, so microflow policing is only supported for wireless clients today. And those are, again, raw numbers. The one thing which the ASIC brings to the table is now we have eight queues per wired port, and there are four queues on the port on which the AP is attached, to match the four queues on the AP. And then you have a six meg buffer, which is, again, an increase from the two meg buffer which we had on the earlier 3K.”
Common attributues – UADP
Same. IOS XE powers 9200
Why ios XE
Lot of benefits –
1.Single release for all campus switching – classic on 2k , ios xe on cat9k – difficult to. Keep track . Now made consistent . Same 16.9 , 16.10 will be carried over to 9200
2.Simplicity – embedded web ui on the box , pnp
3. operational simplicity – behavior of features will be same – cli level
Resiliency at hw level
Same resiliency at sw level
Took monolithic code block from classic and broke down to different sub systems – think of these as features . These are all modular . Failure of one sub process doesn’t affect rest of the sub systems .
Xe database – stores the states of the processes before crash – less convergence time
HA at SW level as well
Ios xe on 9200 – optimized version of ios xe – lighter image –
1.Image size – 640 mb on 9k , 9200 half the size
2.How we did that – optimizing – take all of the. Unused libraries – features that do not make sense – like bgp – taken out and optimized
Optimised for this switch . Benefits of ios xe still there – HS , telemetry
So let’s understand the stack ring, right. If you assume that these four switches, or even if you consider say two 48 port systems, in this case each of those blocks are the ESPM ASIC. There are six rings in total, three rings go east, three rings go west, and each ring is running at forty gig, so the total stack bandwidth is 240 gig and then with spatial reuse you can double it up to 480 gig. So before transmission on the stack, the packets are segmented into 256 byte segments, which are again reassembled at the destination. So this is how the stacking architecture looks like in the 3850.
Big differentiator
Do stateful switchover in case of failure of active switch
that means if we have for example two 1000W PS inserted ( total of 2000W available ) , out of that 1440W ( 48*30W) will be used for POE in combined mode , and rest of ( 1000-720 = 280W ) of second PS will be used for redundancy of system power
suppose we have 2 PS connected. and all 48 ports are connected to PDs. if we remove 2nd PS. port from 25-48 will go down. due to insufficient power. assuming each port consumes maximum budget i.e 30W
Reserved power depends on the Power Supply capacity.
switch Type PS type System reserved Power PoE power
Non PoE 125w 125w 0w
24port PoE 600w 230w 370w
48port PoE 1000w 260w 740w
Again, in redundancy case, more system power reserved
switch Type PS in redundant System reserved Power PoE power
Non PoE 125w 250w 0w
24port PoE 600w 460w 740w
48port PoE 1000w 520w 1480w
We also support power policing on 9200
SDAccess is leading campus architecture . Catalyst 9200 can act as a fabric edge node . Which is basically where your end points are connected . It is an entry level switch to this . It helps you run sd. Access on a small branch where you don’t many vrfs. Scale . s
Here we see the benefits of open ios xe . Programmable model. Configs using yang model. Support restconf,netconf and gnmi .
Day0 provisioning made easy with – pxe and pnp using dnac
Monitoring purpose we support streaming telemetry
Do not have to qualify the whole release
Point fix for the issue
Lesser in size – easy to download and install
To enhance the security of Cisco networks, Cisco has been designing technologies into our solutions for over a decade which help protect against counterfeit and prevent malicious software from running on a Cisco platform
We call these trustworthy technologies
This includes technologies such as image signing, secure boot, runtime defenses, and Trust Anchor module, among others
These technologies are widely available on many of Cisco’s leading products, including the Cat 9200
The ability to verify the integrity of the network infrastructure is a competitive advantage for Cisco and is especially important to customers in service provider, government, military, energy, and other critical or regulated industries
Trustworthy technologies in the Cat 9 and many other Cisco platform help protect against counterfeit and software modification
They provide greater visibility into the authenticity (Is the product genuine Cisco?) and integrity (Has the platform been modified?) of Cisco networking solutions
Cisco embeds security across the entire product lifecycle to enhance the security and resilience of our solutions
Increasing number of devices getting powered by IOT – responsibility for us to make sure they are always up and running
When you have a new end point connected to the switch , it usually waits for the link to come up and using Layer 2 CDP or LLDP exchange messages , allocates a certain power to the end point .This usually takes around 20-25 seconds. Using 2 even classification , it will not wait for the link to come up , but. Instead. Using the laye 1electrical signals at the physical layer , negotiate the power and allocate it to the end point . This is a very quick process and takes less than 5 seconds .
Ppoe comes into picture when the switch is going for a soft reload and you want your end points to have continue supply of power . So in cases of image upgrade or software crash , the end points will also get shut down , however using pope feature the POE devices continue to get the last negotiated power and it really helps in ensuring the end points. Are always powered up .
Fast POE feature comes into picture when there is a complete outage of the power . And when the power restores for the switch , it usually waits for ios to come up to allocate the power to the end point . However using. Fast poe , 30 seconds post the restoration of power the switch picks up the data from nvram regarding the last allocated power and immedidately powers up the end point .