cisco Catalyst 9300 Catalyst 9300 vs juniper EX Series EX4400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch series is the premier stackable enterprise campus switching platform for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud connectivity. The Juniper EX4400 is an AI-powered 1U cloud-ready enterprise access switch designed for modern campus architectures.
| cisco Catalyst 9300 Catalyst 9300 | juniper EX Series EX4400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 1U modular switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Chassis ports | 24 or 48 ports copper (1GbE, Multi-gigabit) or SFP/SFP+ fiber | — |
| Modular network modules | Up to 4x 10G SFP+, 8x 10G SFP+, 2x 40G QSFP+, 2x 25G SFP28, or 2x 100G QSFP28 | — |
| Stacking performance | StackWise-480 delivering 480 Gbps across 8 switches | — |
| Poe delivery | Cisco UPOE+ up to 90W per port (IEEE 802.3bt Class 8) | — |
| Security features | Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), MACsec-256, Trustworthy Solutions | — |
| Application hosting | Native Docker container and ThousandEyes enterprise agent hosting | — |
| Ports | — | 24 or 48x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports |
| Uplinks | — | 2x 100GbE QSFP28 ports and modular uplink slots (4x 10G/25G or 1x 100G) |
| Fabric support | — | EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric extensions down to the access layer |
| Telemetry | — | Streaming telemetry with automated anomaly detection via Mist AI |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 496 Gbps / 369 Mpps forwarding capacity |
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