Cisco C9410R Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

Suffix Breakdown

• C9400: Catalyst 9400 modular enterprise aggregation/core switch series
• 10: Total 10 horizontal chassis slots (2 Supervisor + 8 Line Card slots)
• R: Side-to-side front-to-rear airflow, shallow closet-optimized depth chassis

Core Differentiators

1. vs C9407R: 8 line card slots (vs 5), higher maximum port density, larger fabric throughput, identical 8 PSU bays for maximum PoE capacity, taller 13RU rack footprint for hyperscale core deployments.
2. vs C9404R: Far greater line card quantity, port scalability and PoE power capacity; designed for campus core instead of wiring closet aggregation.
3. vs pre-assembled C9410R-A / C9410R-E: C9410R is a bare empty chassis with zero preloaded internal FRUs, allowing fully customized hardware builds tailored to exact port, PoE and performance requirements.

2. Chassis Slot Layout & Hardware Compatibility

Full PN Breakdown

1. C9410R: Bare 10-slot modular core/aggregation switch chassis (all modular FRUs sold separately)
   • Slot 5, Slot 6: Dual dedicated supervisor engine bays (active/standby HA deployment)
   • Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 3, Slot 4, Slot 7, Slot 8, Slot 9, Slot 10: Eight hot-swappable line card bays for copper PoE or fiber uplink modules
   • Rear cage: 8 hot-swappable power supply slots + single shared hot-swappable dual-fan C9410-FAN tray assembly
2. Airflow Rule: All power supply and fan tray FRUs must match native side-to-side airflow; reverse airflow hardware is unsupported on this chassis modelCisco.

Hardware Comparison Table

Supported Modular Hardware

Supervisor Engines

Copper PoE Access Line Cards

• C9400-LC-48HN: 48-port Multi-Gigabit (1G/2.5G/5G/10G) UPOE++ 90W IEEE 802.3bt
• C9400-LC-48H: 48-port Gigabit UPOE+ IEEE 802.3at

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

Supported Power Supplies

Dedicated Fan Tray

Bare Chassis Included Hardware

1. 13RU standard 19-inch rack-mount metal chassis frame with integrated front cable management brackets and side mounting handles
2. Front panel full LED status array: Global chassis health alarm, per-slot module status LEDs, PSU/fan fault indicators, remote blue UID asset locator beacon for rack identification
3. Built-in UHF RFID tag for asset lifecycle tracking, heavy-duty chassis earth grounding lugs, cable strain relief hardware
4. 19-inch rack mounting rails, hardware installation guide, global safety & regulatory compliance documentation
5. Items Not Included (Mandatory Separate Order)
   • 1 or 2 supervisor engines (dual SUP recommended for SSO/NSF stateful high availability)
   • 1–8 line card modules based on required copper/fiber port density
   • Dedicated C9410-FAN hot-swappable fan tray assembly
   • Minimum 1 AC/DC power supply; N+1/N+N redundant power deployment recommended
   • SFP/SFP+/SFP28/QSFP28 optical transceivers, DAC/AOC fiber cables, RJ45 serial console rollover cable

3. Port & Slot Layout Description

Front Panel Slots & Interfaces

1. Dual Supervisor Slots (Slot 5 / Slot 6)
   Each supervisor module 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 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 SSD storage (up to 960GB on SUP-2XL) for embedded x86 CPU Docker container application hosting

1. Eight Hot-Swappable Line Card Slots (Slot 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10)
   Eight vacant modular bays for customer-selected multi-gig PoE copper or high-speed fiber uplink line cards; every line card includes dedicated per-port link/activity LED indicators
2. Chassis Global 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 power supply and fan tray assemblies
• Remote-triggerable blue UID beacon LED for rapid rack asset identification during maintenance

Rear Panel Hardware Layout

1. Eight hot-swappable power supply slots supporting N+1 / N+N redundant AC/DC power architecture to maximize PoE power budget
2. Single shared hot-swappable multi-fan C9410-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 96 Tbps full-duplex (deployed with dual C9400X-SUP-2XL UADP 3.0 flagship supervisors)
2. Layer 2/Layer 3 Forwarding Rate: Up to 36 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. Full Chassis PoE Power Budget: Maximum 4800W UPOE++ power delivery with eight 2880W/3200W PoE-capable PSUs, 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 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 C9410R chassis into a single logical redundant fabric node
   • N+1 / N+N redundant power supply architecture for maximum power fault tolerance

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Form Factor: 13 RU rack unit (22.75 in / 57.79 cm height)
• Overall Dimensions (H × W × D): 22.75 × 17.30 × 16.30 in (57.79 × 43.94 × 41.40 cm)
• Bare chassis weight (frame only, no modules/fans/PSUs): 78.0 lb (35.38 kg)
• Fully loaded maximum weight (all 8 line cards, dual SUPs, 8 PSUs, full transceivers): Up to 102.0 lb (46.27 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: ≤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

Power Supply FRU Specifications (Separate Purchase)

• AC Input Voltage: 100–240V 50/60Hz high-efficiency 80 Plus Platinum power supplies
• PSU Models Available: 2100W non-PoE AC, 2880W full UPOE++ AC, 3200W high-capacity AC/DC telecom PSU
• 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, MPLS L3VPN/VPLS/EoMPLS service provider featuresCisco
• 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 C9410R Bare Chassis

1. Hyperscale Enterprise Campus Core Layer
   8 flexible line card slots support massive mixed multi-gig UPOE++ copper access and 25G/100G fiber uplinks to multi-building campus aggregation switches; dual flagship supervisors deliver full 96 Tbps non-blocking fabric throughput, ideal for large-scale SD-Access EVPN fabric core/border node deployment.
2. Ultra-Dense Wi-Fi 6/6E Wireless Aggregation Pod
   8-slot power supply cage delivers maximum 4800W PoE power budget to power hundreds of enterprise wireless access points; intelligent PoE priority management prevents AP outages during power budget constraints, supervisor built-in high-speed uplinks handle massive concurrent wireless client throughput for city-wide campus wireless networks.
3. Medium-to-Large Hybrid Data Center Spine/Leaf Switch
   Abundant fiber line card density provides 10G/25G/100G uplink capacity for multi-tenant cloud workloads; expanded routing table capacity supports thousands of tenant VRFs, VXLAN EVPN hardware acceleration logically isolates corporate, IoT and cloud traffic on shared physical infrastructure.
4. Large-Scale Smart Building & Industrial IoT Convergence Core
   Maximum 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 Mission-Critical Enterprise Core & Disaster Recovery Pods
   StackWise Virtual virtualizes two C9410R chassis into a single logical redundant switch for business-critical enterprise core and service provider edge environments; ISSU zero-downtime firmware upgrades eliminate scheduled maintenance windows for 24/7 operating organizations.

7. Standard Package Contents of C9410R Bare Chassis SKU

Separately Mandatory & Optional Add-On Components

1. Mandatory FRUs to Complete Functional Switch
   • 1× or 2× Supervisor Engine (dual SUP recommended for HA)
   • 1–8× Line Card modules selected based on copper PoE or fiber port density requirements
   • 1× dedicated C9410-FAN hot-swappable fan tray assembly
   • Minimum 1× AC/DC power supply (N+1/N+N redundant deployment recommended)
2. Optional Accessories
   • 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
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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