9200 vs 9300 fabric edge

[JonathanC1]

Hello All,

Looking for some experience or tips. We are looking at buying 9300s over 9200 for fabric edge. It will be 48 port and the majority of ports will be used for Wired + fabric enabled APs. I believe looking at documentation 9300 is the better choice but i see 9200 is supported and obviously cheaper. With the amount of routing requirements from SDA with LISP/VXLAN etc I am leaning on 9300s and have used them as edges in past.

Any thoughts exp?

Warm Regards

JC

[Benjamin-A]

Hi Jonathan,

there is a difference between the C9200 and C9300 in scale and features

C9300 will give you additionally Features:

• Cisco DNA Services for Bonjour
• ERSPAN
• App hosting
• Wireshark
• Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA)
• You will be able to extend Fabric Edges with Extended Nodes and Policy Extended Nodes
• You can add an EWC Role (embedded Wireless Controller)
• Power Stacking 
• and maybe I missed some but these are listed at the C9200/C9300 Datasheet

From scale perspective look at this: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/dna-center/nb-06-dna-center-data-sheet-cte-en.html

Scale	C9200	C9300L	C9300
User Virtual Networks	4	256	256
Endpoints	4000	6000	6000
Access points directly connected (limited to)	25	50	NA
Wireless endpoints directly connected (limited to)	500	1000	NA

Further more you want to check the lead time these days when an C9200 vs. 9300 will be avialable. 

It realy depends on your/your customers environment and budget. C9300L is a good alternativ. Not that expensive as an C9300 and comes with a good feature set which provides great value, so you will be flexible in the future

[Flavio Miranda]

Take a look on this table. It might be helpful to take decision. Personal option, I´d go with 9300.

[rasmus.elmholt]

If you are going to use it for a fabric the 9300L is much better then the 9200 platform. Improved UADP chip and support for more than 4 VNs.

And with licenses the price between 9300L and 9200 is not that much. Would recommend going with the 9300(L).