C8300-2N2S-6T Enterprise Edge Router, 6×1G Gigabit RJ45 Ports, 2NIM+2SM Modular Slots, Dual Redundant Power, SD-WAN Ready
Cisco C8300-2N2S-6T Overview
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 SD-WAN services.
Quick Specs
Table 1 shows the Quick Specs.
| Part number | C8300-2N2S-6T |
| Description | C8300 2RU w/ 1G WAN (2 SM and 2 NIM slots, and 6 x 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports) |
| Multicore processors | Intel x86 CPU with 8 GB memory default |
| Embedded IPsec VPN hardware acceleration | Up to 5 Gbps of IPSec Internet Mix (IMIX) traffic |
| DRAM | 8 GB |
| SD-WAN overlay tunnels scale | 6000 |
| Integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports |
6 built-in 10/100/1000/10G Ethernet ports for WAN or LAN 2 SFP Ethernet ports, 4 RJ45 ports |
| Flash memory support | 8-GB flash |
| M.2 storage | With default 16G M.2 USB for SD-WAN logging and additional storage on the platform and can be upgraded to 32G M.2 USB and 600G M.2 NVMe Storage |
Compare to Similar Items
Table 2 shows the comparison.
| Product Code | C8300-2N2S-6T | C8300-1N1S-6T |
| Product Description | C8300 2RU w/ 1G WAN (2 SM and 2 NIM slots, and 6 x 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports) | C8300 1RU w/ 1G WAN (1 SM slot and 1 NIM slot, and 6 x 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports) |
| Multicore processors | Intel x86 CPU with 8 GB memory default | Intel x86 CPU with 8 GB memory default |
| Embedded IPsec VPN hardware acceleration | Up to 5 Gbps of IPSec Internet Mix (IMIX) traffic | Up to 5 Gbps of IPSec Internet Mix (IMIX) traffic |
| DRAM | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| SD-WAN overlay tunnels scale | 6000 | 6000 |
| SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (1400Bytes, clear text) | Up to 1.9Gbps | Up to 1.9Gbps |
| SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (IMIX*, clear text) | 1.75Gbps | 1.75Gbps |
| Slots |
2 SM 2 NIM 1 PIM |
1 SM 1 NIM 1 PIM |
Cisco C8300-2N2S-6T Specification
C8300-2N2S-6T Specification |
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| Description | C8300 2RU w/ 1G WAN (2 SM and 2 NIM slots, and 6 x 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports) |
| Multicore processors | Intel x86 CPU with 8 GB memory default |
| Embedded IPsec VPN hardware acceleration | Up to 5 Gbps of IPSec Internet Mix (IMIX) traffic |
| Integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports |
6 built-in 10/100/1000/10G Ethernet ports for WAN or LAN 2 SFP Ethernet ports, 4 RJ45 ports |
| Flash memory support | 8-GB flash |
| Modularity and form factor |
1RU and 2RU form factor Supports SM, NIM, and Pluggable Interface Module (PIM) slots |
| 10G port density | - |
| 1G port density | 6 |
| Slots |
2 SM 2 NIM 1 PIM |
| DRAM | 8 GB |
| Storage (M.2 SSD) default | 16 GB |
| SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (1400Bytes, clear text) | Up to 1.9Gbps |
| SD-WAN IPsec Throughput (IMIX*, clear text**) | 1.75Gbps |
| SD-WAN Overlay Tunnels scale | 6000 |
| IPv4 Forwarding Throughput (1400Bytes) | Up to 19.7Gbps |
| IPsec Throughput (1400Bytes, clear text**) | Up to 1.9Gbps |
| Number of IPsec SVTI Tunnels | 4000 |
| Number of ACLs per system | 4000 |
| Number of IPv4 ACEs per system | 72K |
| Number of IPv4 Routes | 1.6M w/ default 8GB, up to 4M w/ 32GB |
| Number of IPv6 Routes | 1.5M w/ default 8GB, up to 4M w/ 32GB |
| Number of Queues | 16K |
| Number of NAT Sessions | 1.2M w/ default 8GB, up to 2M w/ 32GB |
| Number of Firewall Sessions | 512K |
| Number of VRFs | 4000 |
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