C9300-48UXM-E is the Catalyst 9300 switch, providing 48-port 2.5G (12 mGig) UPOE, and Network Essentials. CiscoĀ® CatalystĀ® 9300 Series Switches are Ciscoās lead stackable enterprise switching platform built for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud. They are the next generation of the industryās most widely deployed switching platform. The Catalyst 9300 Series switches form the foundational building block for Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), Ciscoās lead enterprise architecture. At 480 Gbps, they are the industryās highest-density stacking bandwidth solution with the most flexible uplink architecture. The Catalyst 9300 Series is the first optimized platform for high-density 802.11ac Wave2. It sets new maximums for network scale. These switches are also ready for the future, with an x86 CPU architecture and more memory, enabling them to host containers and run third-party applications and scripts natively within the switch.