Campus lan and Wireless lan solution Design Guide

Table 1.
 
High availability feature support 
Platform Switch 
Stacking 
Supervisor 
Redundancy 
NSF / 
SSO 
EtherChannel 
ISSU 
SMUs GIR Power Redundancy 
Cisco 
Catalyst 
9200 
Series 
StackWise-
160/80 with 
Active / 
Standby 
— 
Yes 
Cross-Stack 
EtherChannel 
No 
Yes 
No Up to 2 hot-
swappable power 
supplies per switch. 
PoE models operate in 
Combined mode.
Non-PoE models 
operate in 1:1 
redundancy mode. 
Cisco 
Catalyst 
9300 
Series 
StackWise-
480/360 with 
Active / 
Standby 
— 
Yes 
Cross-Stack 
EtherChannel 
No. 
Supports 
Fast 
Software 
Upgrade 
(FSU) and 
Extended 
FSU. 
Yes 
Yes StackPower (up to 4 
switches per stack) 
operating in shared or 
redundant mode. 
Cisco XPS 2200 for 
stacks of up to 8 
switches 
Cisco 
Catalyst 
9400 
Series 
— 
Single chassis 
1:1 or cross 
chassis 
StackWise 
Virtual 
Yes 
Multichassis 
EtherChannel 
with StackWise 
Virtual
Yes 
Yes 
Yes Hot-swappable power 
supplies in N+N or 
N+1 power 
redundancy modes 
Cisco 
Catalyst 
9500 
Series 
— 
Cross chassis 
StackWise 
Virtual 
Yes 
Multichassis 
EtherChannel 
with StackWise 
Virtual
Yes 
Yes 
Yes Dual 1+1 redundant 
power supplies. 
Cisco 
Catalyst 
9600 
Series 
— 
Single chassis 
1:1 or cross 
chassis 
StackWise 
Virtual 
Yes 
Multichassis 
EtherChannel 
with StackWise 
Virtual
Yes 
Yes 
Yes Four power supplies 
which can operate in 
Combined or N+1 
redundancy modes. 

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Design Fundamentals: Campus Wireless LAN 
The campus WLAN provides ubiquitous data and voice connectivity for employees, wireless Internet access for 
guests, and connectivity for IoT devices. With the emergence of high-density networks and the IoT, 
organizations are more dependent on wireless networks than ever before. Increasing numbers of devices 
connect to the network every year, ranging from high-performance client devices to low-bandwidth IoT 
devices.
Cisco wireless solutions are resilient, have the integrated security organizations need, and employ adaptive and 
insightful intelligence providing useful insight into the network. With intent-based networking built on Cisco 
Digital Network Architecture (Cisco DNA), our wireless solutions go beyond the latest Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 
standard and are ready for the growing user expectations, IoT devices and next gen cloud-driven applications. 
With the ability to handle the increased mobile traffic as well as support IoT at scale, Cisco’s first Wi-Fi 6 APs 
with superior RF innovations expand wireless access with intelligence and provide a secure, reliable high quality 
wireless experience for all networks.