Cisco C9407R-E Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

Suffix Breakdown

• C9400: Catalyst 9400 modular aggregation/core enterprise switch series
• 7: Total 7 horizontal chassis slots (2 Supervisor + 5 Line Card slots)
• R: Side-to-side front-to-rear airflow, shallow closet-optimized depth chassis
• -E: Enhanced pre-built unit with factory pre-installed flagship UADP 3.0 Gen2 supervisors, heavy-duty cooling tray, and max-capacity UPOE++ AC power supplies

Core Differentiators

1. vs bare C9407R: All high-end mandatory FRUs pre-installed at factory, eliminating separate ordering of supervisors, fan tray and power supplies to accelerate large network deployment.
2. vs C9407R-A: C9407R-A ships with Gen1 UADP 2.0 SUP-1XL supervisors and 2100W mid-capacity PSUs; C9407R-E uses flagship C9400X-SUP-2XL UADP 3.0 supervisors delivering full 72 Tbps non-blocking fabric, expanded routing/ACL tables, 960GB onboard SSD, high-precision streaming telemetry, and dual 2880W full UPOE++ PSUs for maximum PoE power budgetCisco.
3. vs smaller C9404R-E: 5 line card slots (vs only 2), 8 PSU bays for larger PoE capacity, 10RU rack height supporting up to 240 front-panel access ports for large campus deployments.

2. Part Number Breakdown & Hardware Comparison Matrix

Full PN Breakdown

1. C9407R-E: Enhanced pre-assembled 7-slot modular aggregation/core switch chassis
   • Slot 3, Slot 4: Dual factory pre-mounted C9400X-SUP-2XL UADP 3.0 flagship supervisors (active/standby SSO/NSF HA ready out of box)
   • Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 5, Slot 6, Slot 7: Five empty hot-swappable line card bays for customer copper PoE or fiber uplink modules
   • Rear cage: 8 power supply slots with factory pre-installed dual 2880W full UPOE++ platinum AC PSUs + heavy-duty high-airflow C9407-FAN fan tray pre-mounted
2. Airflow Rule: All factory preloaded power and fan FRUs support native side-to-side cooling; reverse airflow hardware is incompatible with this chassis modelCisco.

Hardware Comparison Table

Factory Pre-Integrated Hardware Included in C9407R-E

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 flagship C9400X-SUP-2XL UADP 3.0 supervisor engines with SSO stateful switchover and NSF non-stop forwarding pre-enabled, embedded high-performance x86 CPU and 960GB onboard SSD for Docker containerized network applications
3. Heavy-duty high-airflow multi-fan C9407-FAN hot-swappable fan tray pre-mounted in rear fan bay for stable cooling under full PoE load
4. N+N fully redundant dual 2880W 80 Plus Platinum UPOE++ AC power supplies factory pre-installed in 8-slot rear PSU cage, delivering full 90W per-port IEEE 802.3bt PoE capacity
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 UADP 3.0 Supervisor Slots (Slot 3 / Slot 4)
   Each flagship C9400X-SUP-2XL supervisor integrates complete out-of-band management and high-speed 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 SSH/SNMP/Cisco DNA Center access
• USB Type-A storage port for firmware images, configuration backup, POAP zero-touch provisioning files
• Front integrated uplink optical slots: 4×10G SFP+, 1×25G SFP28, 1×40G QSFP for core fabric interconnection
• Onboard 960GB SSD storage for hosting third-party Docker network applications on embedded x86 CPU

1. Five Empty Hot-Swappable Line Card Slots (Slot 1, 2, 5, 6, 7)
   Five vacant modular bays for customer-selected multi-gig PoE copper 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 2880W UPOE++ AC power supplies (N+N fully redundant architecture; additional PSUs can be added to reach maximum 4800W total PoE power)
2. Single pre-installed heavy-duty multi-fan hot-swappable C9407-FAN tray assembly for high-volume 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: 72 Tbps full-duplex (UADP 3.0 Gen2 supervisor exclusive peak performance)Cisco
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 5760W PoE capacity with dual factory 2880W PSUs; expandable to maximum 4800W UPOE++ by populating all 8 PSU slots, fully compliant with IEEE 802.3af/at/bt 90W per-port power for Wi-Fi 6/6E APs, IP cameras and industrial IoT sensorsCisco
8. Native High Availability Features
   • Dual active/standby pre-installed Gen2 supervisors with SSO stateful switchover and NSF non-stop forwarding to eliminate sub-second traffic loss during supervisor failover
   • ISSU In-Service Software Upgrade for zero-traffic-downtime firmware image updates with less than 200ms forwarding interruptionCisco
   • 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-E units into a single logical redundant fabric node
   • N+N fully redundant power supply architecture out of box; expandable to full 8-PSU N+N redundancy for maximum power fault tolerance

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)Cisco
• Pre-assembled chassis weight (dual SUP-2XL, heavy-duty fan tray, dual 2880W PSUs, no line cards/transceivers): 72.8 lb (33.02 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 ≤3000mManualsLib
• Storage Temperature: -40°C to +75°C (-40°F to 167°F)
• Operating Humidity: 10%–85% non-condensing
• Acoustic Noise Output: ≤62 dBA under full PoE 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 2880W full UPOE++ AC power supplies
• Continuous 90W per-port power delivery for all multi-gigabit copper line cards without power budget throttling
• 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 optimized on UADP 3.0 ASIC for large-scale Cisco SD-Access enterprise fabric architecture
• Anycast gateway, LISP host mobility, native high-performance 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)

Enhanced Automation, Programmability & Observability (Exclusive to-EGen2 Supervisors)

• Model-driven programmability: NETCONF, RESTCONF, NX-API, standardized YANG data models
• Embedded high-performance x86 supervisor CPU supporting Docker container hosting for third-party custom network applications
• POAP zero-touch automated provisioning for mass fabric deployment
• High-precision streaming real-time telemetry, IPFIX flow export, continuous buffer/latency counter monitoring with expanded data pools exclusive to UADP 3.0 supervisors
• 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-E Pre-Assembled Enhanced Chassis

1. Large-Scale Enterprise SD-Access EVPN Fabric Border Node
   Factory preloaded UADP 3.0 Gen2 supervisors deliver full 72 Tbps non-blocking fabric capacity optimized for hyperscale multi-tenant EVPN SD-Access deployments; maximum expandable 4800W PoE budget supports unified wired/wireless user access, dual redundant flagship supervisors eliminate single points of failure for mission-critical campus core traffic.
2. Ultra-Dense Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless Aggregation Pod
   Full UPOE++ 90W continuous power delivery powers hundreds of high-power enterprise wireless access points; enhanced supervisor high-precision telemetry monitors wireless uplink congestion, built-in 25G/100G supervisor uplinks handle massive concurrent wireless client throughput for large multi-building campus wireless networks.
3. Medium-to-Large Multi-Tenant Hybrid Cloud Leaf Aggregation
   Flexible fiber line card options provide abundant 10G/25G/100G uplink density for multi-tenant cloud workloads; expanded routing table capacity supports thousands of tenant VRFs, UADP 3.0 hardware VXLAN acceleration logically isolates corporate, IoT and cloud workloads on shared physical infrastructure.
4. Large Smart Building & Industrial IoT Convergence Core
   Mass expandable PoE 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. 24/7 Mission-Critical Enterprise Core & Disaster Recovery Pods
   StackWise Virtual virtualizes two C9407R-E enhanced chassis into a single logical redundant switch for enterprise core and disaster recovery sites; ISSU zero-downtime firmware upgrades eliminate scheduled maintenance windows, heavy-duty high-airflow fan tray design maintains stable cooling under full load in high-temperature wiring closets and edge data centers.

7. Standard Package Contents of C9407R-E Pre-Assembled Enhanced 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
   • Additional 2880W / 3200W high-capacity AC/DC power supplies to expand total chassis 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

Short Commercial Catalog Summary for Quotation