Overview - Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Overview

The Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms are best-of-breed, 5G-ready, cloud edge platforms designed
for accelerated services, multi-layer security, cloud-native agility, and edge intelligence to accelerate your
journey to cloud.
Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms with Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software deliver Cisco's secure,
cloud-scale SD-WAN solution for the branch. The Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms is 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 Cisco 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, LTE, 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. The Cisco 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 Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms are well suited for medium-sized and large enterprise branch
offices for high WAN IPSec performance with integrated SD-WAN services.
Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms target these use cases:
• Enterprise Branch office, Managed Service Provide CPE, Internet Gateway for DIA, SASE cloud platform
with SD-WAN
• Next-generation of Software Defined (SD) Branch routing platforms
For more information on the features and specifications, refer to the Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms
datasheet.
Note Sections in this documentation apply to all models of Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms unless
a reference to a specific model is made explicitly.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Chassis Views, on page 2
• Locating Labels on Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms, on page 6
• Hardware Features of Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms, on page 9
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