Cisco C8300 Router

(C8300-2N2S-6T)

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.

C8300-2N2S-6T Specifications

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
1G port density 6
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