Cisco C9407R-A Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

• Suffix breakdown definition:
  • C9400: Catalyst 9400 modular enterprise aggregation/core switch series
  • 7: Total 7 chassis slots (2 Supervisor + 5 Line Card slots)
  • R: Side-to-side front-to-rear airflow, shallow closet-optimized compact chassis
  • -A: Assembled pre-built integrated unit with factory preloaded dual supervisors, fan tray and redundant AC power supplies (differentiated from bare empty C9407R chassis)
• Core differentiators vs bare C9407R: All mandatory base FRUs pre-installed at factory, eliminating separate procurement of supervisors, fan tray and power supplies to shorten project deployment lead time; identical slot capacity, port scalability and base software feature set as standard C9407R frame.
• Core differentiators vs C9407R-E: C9407R-A ships with standard Gen1 UADP 2.0 supervisors and mid-capacity AC power supplies, while C9407R-E uses flagship UADP 3.0 Gen2 supervisors and maximum 2880W UPOE++ power supplies for higher throughput and PoE budget.
• Differentiated from smaller C9404R-A by 5 line card slots (vs only 2), 8 PSU bays for larger PoE power capacity, and 10RU taller rack footprint for large campus multi-building deployments.

2. Part Number Breakdown & Hardware Comparison Matrix

Full PN Breakdown

1. C9407R-A: Pre-assembled 7-slot modular aggregation/core integrated switch chassis
   • Slot 3 & Slot 4: Dual factory pre-installed Gen1 supervisor engine bays (active/standby HA ready out of box)
   • Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 5, Slot 6, Slot 7: Five empty hot-swappable line card bays for customer-selected copper PoE or fiber uplink modules
   • Rear cage: 8 power supply bays with factory pre-populated N+1 redundant mid-capacity AC PSUs + dedicated C9407-FAN hot-swappable fan tray pre-mounted
2. Airflow specification: Native side-to-side cooling (air enters front panel, exhausts rear). All factory preloaded power and fan FRUs match this airflow standard; reverse airflow hardware is unsupported on this chassis model.

Hardware Comparison Table

Factory Pre-Integrated Hardware Included in C9407R-A

1. 10RU standard 19-inch rack-mount metal chassis frame with integrated front cable management brackets and side mounting handles
2. Dual factory pre-installed C9400-SUP-1XL UADP 2.0 supervisor engines with SSO/NSF stateful high availability enabled out of box, embedded x86 CPU and onboard SSD for containerized application hosting
3. Standard C9407-FAN hot-swappable multi-fan tray assembly pre-mounted in rear chassis fan bay
4. N+1 redundant 2100W mid-capacity AC power supplies factory pre-installed in rear 8-slot PSU cage for basic power redundancy
5. Front panel full LED status array: Global chassis health alarm, per-slot module status LEDs, PSU/fan fault indicators, remote blue UID locator beacon for asset identification during maintenance
6. Built-in UHF RFID asset tracking tag, heavy-duty chassis earth grounding lugs, cable strain relief hardware
7. 19-inch rack mounting rails, hardware installation guide, global safety & regulatory compliance documentation
8. Items Not Included (Mandatory Separate Order)
   • 1–5 line card modules to populate empty line card slots
   • SFP/SFP+/SFP28/QSFP28 optical transceivers, passive Twinax DAC, active AOC fiber cables
   • RJ45 serial console rollover cable, out-of-band management patch cords, optional lockable front door

Supported Modular Line Card Compatibility

Copper PoE Access Line Cards

• C9400-LC-48HN: 48-port Multi-Gigabit (1G/2.5G/5G/10G) UPOE++ 90W
• C9400-LC-48H: 48-port Gigabit UPOE+

Fiber Uplink Line Cards

• C9400-LC-24S: 24×1G SFP
• C9400-LC-24XS: 24×10G SFP+
• C9400-LC-24XY: 24×25G SFP28
• C9400-LC-12QC: 12×40G/100G QSFP28 high-speed uplink card

Optional Upgrade Power Supplies

3. Chassis Port & Slot Layout Description

Front Panel Slots & Interfaces

1. Dual Pre-Installed Gen1 Supervisor Slots (Slot 3 / Slot 4)
   Each factory-loaded C9400-SUP-1XL supervisor integrates complete out-of-band management and built-in uplink optical ports:

• RJ45 RS232 serial console port for local CLI configuration
• 1×10/100/1000BASE-T out-of-band MGMT Ethernet port for remote DCNM/SNMP/SSH access
• USB Type-A storage port for firmware images, configuration backup, POAP zero-touch provisioning files
• Front-panel integrated uplink optical slots (4×10G SFP+, 1×25G SFP28, 1×40G QSFP) for core fabric interconnection
• Onboard SSD storage for Docker containerized third-party network applications hosted on embedded x86 supervisor CPU

1. Five Empty Hot-Swappable Line Card Slots (Slot 1, 2, 5, 6, 7)
   Five vacant modular bays for customer-selected copper PoE multi-gigabit or high-speed fiber uplink line cards; every line card features dedicated per-port link/activity LED indicators
2. Global Chassis Status Indicators

• System health LED: Green = normal operation, Amber = minor fault, Red = critical hardware failure
• Per-slot module status LEDs for supervisors and all vacant line card slots
• Separate fault alarm LEDs for pre-installed power supply and fan tray assemblies
• Remote-triggerable blue UID beacon LED for rapid rack asset identification during maintenance windows

Rear Panel Hardware Layout

1. Eight hot-swappable power supply bays with factory pre-mounted dual 2100W mid-capacity AC power supplies (N+1 redundant architecture for basic power fault tolerance; additional PSUs can be added to expand PoE power budget)
2. Single pre-installed standard multi-fan hot-swappable C9407-FAN tray assembly for side-to-side chassis cooling, serviceable from front or rear without full chassis shutdown
3. Heavy-duty chassis earth grounding terminals, exhaust air ventilation grilles, cable retention brackets for power and fiber cable routing

4. Hardware Performance Specifications

1. Maximum Non-Blocking Switching Fabric Capacity: Up to 72 Tbps full-duplex (upgradeable to full capacity by replacing supervisors with C9400X-SUP-2XL UADP 3.0 Gen2 modules)
2. Layer 2/Layer 3 Forwarding Rate: Up to 27 Bpps at minimum 64-byte Ethernet packets
3. MAC Address Table Scale: Up to 1 million MAC address entries
4. Routing Table Capacity: Up to 2 million IPv4 LPM prefixes, 1 million IPv6 LPM prefixes
5. ACL Resource Pool: Up to 128,000 programmable Layer 2 / Layer 3 ACL entries via dynamic UADP ASIC resource allocation
6. QoS Hardware Capabilities: 8 independent priority queues per port, WRR/DRR scheduling, traffic policing, marking, shaping and congestion avoidance
7. Chassis PoE Power Budget: Base 4200W PoE capacity with dual 2100W factory PSUs; expandable to maximum 4800W UPOE++ by populating additional 2880W high-wattage PSUs, fully compliant with IEEE 802.3af/at/bt 90W per-port power for Wi-Fi 6/6E APs, IP cameras and industrial IoT sensors
8. Native High Availability Features
   • Dual active/standby pre-installed Gen1 supervisors with SSO stateful switchover and NSF non-stop forwarding to eliminate traffic loss during supervisor failover
   • ISSU In-Service Software Upgrade for zero-traffic-downtime firmware image updates
   • Full OIR hot-swappable supervisors, line cards, power supplies and fan tray for online maintenance without chassis power-off
   • StackWise Virtual multi-chassis virtualization to combine two C9407R-A units into a single logical redundant fabric node
   • N+1 redundant power supply architecture out of box; expandable to N+N fully redundant power by adding extra AC PSUs

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Form Factor: 10 RU rack unit (17.41 in / 44.22 cm height)
• Overall Dimensions (H × W × D): 17.41 × 17.30 × 16.30 in (44.22 × 43.94 × 41.40 cm)
• Pre-assembled chassis weight (dual SUP-1XL, standard fan tray, dual 2100W PSUs, no line cards/transceivers): 70.5 lb (31.98 kg)
• Fully loaded maximum weight (all 5 line cards + full transceivers + 8 PSUs): Up to 82.0 lb (37.2 kg)
• Operating Temperature Range: -5°C to +45°C (23°F to 113°F) at altitude ≤1800m; -5°C to +40°C (23°F to 104°F) at altitude ≤3000m
• Storage Temperature: -40°C to +75°C (-40°F to 167°F)
• Operating Humidity: 10%–85% non-condensing
• Acoustic Noise Output: ≤60 dBA under standard power load
• Shock & Vibration Compliance: Operating 5G half-sine shock resistance, storage 15G shock rating, industrial vibration tolerance
• Regulatory Certifications: UL 60950-1, CE Class A EMC, FCC Part 15, NEBS Level 3, GR63 seismic certified, RoHS 6 compliant

Pre-Installed AC Power Supply FRU Specifications

• AC Input Voltage: 100–240V 50/60Hz high-efficiency 80 Plus Platinum 2100W mid-capacity AC power supplies
• Supports PoE+ and limited UPOE++ deployments; full 90W per-port continuous power requires upgrade to 2880W PSUs
• Hot OIR replacement supported without full chassis reboot
• Rated MTBF: 2,077,070 hours under nominal operating environmental conditions

5. IOS XE Comprehensive Software Feature Set

Core Layer 2 Campus Switching Functions

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN trunking (4096 maximum VLANs), PVLAN private VLAN segmentation for multi-tenant isolation
• RSTP/MSTP spanning tree suite with BPDU guard, root guard, loop guard and uplink fast convergence
• LACP/PAGP EtherChannel link aggregation with cross-line-card port-channel support
• DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), IP Source Guard, port security MAC address locking
• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet, intelligent UPOE power scheduling with priority power cutoff for IoT and wireless access points

Layer 3 Routing & SD-Access EVPN Fabric Capabilities

• Full IPv4 / IPv6 unicast & multicast routing protocols: Static routes, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, IS-IS
• Up to 32-way ECMP equal-cost multi-path load balancing for uplink resiliency
• Hardware-accelerated VXLAN EVPN data plane for Cisco SD-Access enterprise fabric architecture
• Anycast gateway, LISP host mobility, native fabric border node functionality
• Hardware VRF-lite multi-tenancy segmentation, support for up to 1000 independent VRF instances

Zero Trust & Enterprise Security Features

• Cisco DNA Security native integration, Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) for hidden threat detection
• IEEE 802.1X MAC authentication, WebAuth, MAB multi-factor wired access control
• Hardware ACL policy enforcement, CoPP control plane policing to protect supervisor CPU
• TrustSec SGT tag classification and end-to-end policy propagation across the entire fabric
• Secure boot, digitally signed firmware images, encrypted configuration storage, AAA authentication (TACACS+/RADIUS/LDAP)

Automation, Programmability & Observability

• Model-driven programmability: NETCONF, RESTCONF, NX-API, standardized YANG data models
• Embedded x86 supervisor CPU supporting Docker container hosting for third-party custom network applications
• POAP zero-touch automated provisioning for mass fabric deployment
• Streaming real-time telemetry, IPFIX flow export, continuous buffer/latency counter monitoring
• Cisco DNA Center single-pane-of-glass lifecycle management, automated firmware orchestration, fabric topology visualization
• GOLD Generic Online Diagnostic tests for non-disruptive continuous hardware health monitoring

6. Typical Deployment Scenarios for C9407R-A Pre-Assembled Chassis

1. Standard Large Enterprise Campus Distribution Layer
   Factory preloaded dual supervisors, fan tray and redundant AC power eliminate separate FRU procurement cycles to accelerate campus rollout; 5 flexible line card slots support mixed multi-gigabit UPOE++ copper access and 25G/100G fiber uplinks to data center core switches, built-in SSO/NSF high availability delivers 24/7 reliable traffic forwarding for multi-building campus SD-Access EVPN fabric border node deployment.
2. Medium-Density Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless Aggregation Pod
   Base 4200W PoE power budget supports hundreds of enterprise wireless access points; additional high-wattage PSUs can be installed to expand PoE capacity for larger AP fleets, intelligent PoE priority management prevents AP outages during power budget constraints, supervisor built-in 25G/40G uplinks handle medium concurrent wireless client throughput.
3. Medium Multi-Tenant Hybrid Cloud Leaf Aggregation Switch
   Flexible fiber line card options provide abundant 10G/25G/100G uplink density for multi-tenant cloud workloads; VXLAN EVPN hardware acceleration logically isolates corporate, IoT and cloud traffic on shared physical infrastructure, pre-assembled hardware shortens data center fabric construction timelines.
4. Large Smart Building & Industrial IoT Convergence Core
   Expandable PoE power capacity powers thousands of IP surveillance cameras, door access controllers, lighting sensors and industrial control endpoints; hardware QoS prioritizes low-latency industrial control traffic, TrustSec segmentation isolates vulnerable IoT devices from corporate user networks to reduce attack surface.
5. Redundant Disaster Recovery & Enterprise Mid-Tier Core Pods
   StackWise Virtual virtualizes two C9407R-A pre-assembled chassis into a single logical redundant switch for business-critical enterprise distribution and disaster recovery sites; ISSU zero-downtime firmware upgrades eliminate scheduled maintenance windows for 24/7 operating organizations.

7. Standard Package Contents of C9407R-A Pre-Assembled SKU

Separately Mandatory & Optional Add-On Components

1. Mandatory Modules to Complete Functional Switch
   • 1–5 line card modules selected based on required copper PoE or fiber port density
2. Optional Accessories & Upgrades
   • SFP/SFP+/SFP28/QSFP28 optical transceivers, passive Twinax DAC, active AOC fiber cables
   • RJ45 serial console rollover cable, out-of-band Ethernet patch cords, lockable front door, cable management guides
   • Upgrade 2880W UPOE++ AC power supplies to expand full PoE power budget
3. Software Licenses
   • DNA Advantage perpetual license for full SD-Access, advanced security, streaming telemetry and end-to-end automation feature set
   • DNA Essentials base license for fundamental Layer 2/Layer 3 switching functionality

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