The Cisco ESS 3300 is an embedded Ethernet switch card that has a small form factor board size. The compact design simplifies integration and offers system integrators the ability to use the Cisco ESS 3300 in a wide variety of applications. The Cisco ESS 3300 consists of a Main Board and an optional Expansion Board. Both the Main Board and the Expansion Board are available with Cisco-designed cooling plates, and are also available without the cooling plates for system integrators who want to design their own custom thermal solutions.

The ESS-3300 is a ruggedized GigE Embedded platform for tactical, outdoor and mobile installations. Some of the key features are:

• Main Board – 2 Optical 10G + 8 GE ports (4 combo)
• Expansion Board – 16 GE ports (4 combo)
• Next Generation IE switch feature set
• Software: IOS-XE, Network Essentials and Network Advantage
• Native PoE software visibility
• Push Button, that supports the Zero-ize feature
• Two alarm inputs and One alarm output
• One SD interface
• One USB 2.0 Host interface for USB Flash Memory Device.
• One USB 2.0 Console Interface.
• One RS-232 Console Interface.

Note

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The following table lists the different SKUs available for the ESS3300.

• 2 - Optical 10G Ports on the main module

• 4 - 1G Combo Ports on the main module

  • Support 10/100/1000 Copper

  • Support 100/1000 SFP interfaces

• 4 - Dedicated 10/100/1000 Copper ports on the main module for total of 8 – 1G network ports

Note	MACsec is not available for the two 10 / 1 GE uplink ports (regardless of the speed used) due to hardware constraints.

• 4 - 1G Combo Ports on the main module
  • Support 10/100/1000 Copper
  • Support 100/1000 SFP interfaces
• 12 - Dedicated 10/100/1000 Copper ports on the main module for total of 16 network ports

Note	802.3af and 802.3at support is available if the integrator provides the PoE controllers on their finished product.

The ESS-3300 supports IOS-XE software control of PoE if the integrator adds the appropriate circuitry to their host chassis.

There is one Cisco SD card that has been tested and is recommended, the SD-IE-4GB. If the end user or system integrator chooses to use a 3rd party device, it may work for their application and to their satisfaction. However the end user or system integrator is solely responsible for testing and ensuring proper operation.

The message that displays when a different SD card is installed is:

WARNING: Non-IT SD flash detected. Use of this card during normal operation can impact and
severely degrade performance of the system. Please use supported SD flash cards only.

You can find Cisco’s policy on Third Party Components here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/warranties/warranty-doc-c99-740959.html#_Toc3320258

Both 100BASE-X and 1000BASE-X SFP transceivers are supported by the eight combo ports, four on the Main Board and four on the Expansion Board.

The processor uses a multi-stage boot process that supports both a non-secure and a secure boot. For a secure boot, the system decrypts and authenticates the images while the 4096-bit RSA block authenticates the image. Upon reset, the CPU reads the device mode pins to determine the primary boot device to be used. Booting from these flash boot devices is supported.

• SD Flash

• On-board Flash

Note	The prior generation, ESS 2020, runs Cisco IOS Classic while the ESS 3300 uses Cisco IOS XE.