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Why Cisco Catalyst 9K is so special ?

 Well today I am going to talk about the new Switches which Cisco introduces in July 2017. These are very much powerful switches and going to replace Cisco 3850 and Cisco 4500 Switches with more innovation and high qualities.


I already wrote two articles on Cisco catalyst 9K series switches and articles are below

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch
Cisco Catalyst 9400 Switch

Now the question is Why Cisco Catalyst 9K is so special ?
Cisco Catalyst 9K is a next Generation platform switches introduces to support DNA infrastructure which Cisco just came up this year. Cisco comes up with the innovation and below are the support features set up in Cisco Catalyst 9K Switches.

  • IOT devices convergence : CoAP / IoT Device profiling, Perpetual POE, IEEE 1588 / AVB and Emerging Standards: MUD
  • Mobility Device Features : Fabric Enabled Wireless, Embedded WLC, Distributed Wireless Scale, Unified Control & Policy with Wired & Wireless Guest
  • Security : Encrypted Traffic Analytics; 256bit MacSec / IPSec; Trustworthy Systems; Group based policy; Full Netflow for StealthWatch
  • Open to Cloud: DevOps Toolkit; Netconf/Yang Models; Streaming telemetry; Patching/GIR and Application Hosting.
  • IOS Features : Open IOS-XE with UDAP 2.0 features best in industry.
Fig 1.1- Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch

With the help of Cisco catalyst, the model of Cisco security before, during and after will be achieve by reducing attack surface; Malware and threat detection and Rapid thread containment 

Before Reduce attack Surface stage : Advanced Endpoint Profiling, Authenticated, Identity-Based Access and Group based Network Segmentation 
During Malware and threat detection stage : Full NetFlow based Behaviour Analytics, Encrypted Traffic Analytics and Policy Enforcement Analytics 
After Rapid thread containment Stage : Endpoint Quarantining w/out IP-Address change, Flexible Packet Capture  and Flexible Traffic Redirection


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