C9300-DE-48-SMSK

C9300-DE-48-SMSK is a Cisco Catalyst 9000 DNA licence. It is software rather than hardware, so nothing ships: a key or entitlement is applied to equipment you already have. The catalogue describes it as Cisco DNA Essentials for C9300 48P SMS-K.

This one is current and straightforward to buy. Still in Cisco’s ordering guides as of 1 September 2026, with no end-of-life notice. That makes it one of the licence families here worth buying without caveats, which is not true of all of them.

What to confirm before ordering. The platform and software release it is going onto, because licences are tied to both, and whether the capability is already enabled. The authoritative answer to that second question is the equipment itself, read through its management interface, rather than the purchase history, and checking first avoids paying for something already applied.

How the current Catalyst range is licensed. The Catalyst 9000 series uses subscription tiers, Essentials and Advantage, which cover the software features and the management capability together. Essentials is the baseline; Advantage adds the automation, assurance and policy capabilities. A perpetual Network licence sits underneath the subscription and keeps the switch forwarding traffic even if the subscription lapses, which is the detail worth knowing: a lapsed subscription costs you features and management, not the switch.

Green Code Technologies supplies Cisco and Huawei equipment and licences alongside HPE, Dell, Samsung and Netgear. We would rather tell you a part is no longer supported, or that we need to check it, than take an order for something that will not do what you need. Send us the platform, the software release and what you are trying to achieve and we will come back with a straight answer.