The Cisco Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Routers provide industrial-grade routing, switching, and security capabilities in compact form factors hardened for utility, transportation, and oil/gas environments.

As Cisco’s first fully integrated routing and switching platform, the IR8300 combines multilayer switching, robust routing, VPN services, firewalling, and management into a single router optimized for the operational technology (OT) networks found in critical infrastructure.

Powered by the programmable Cisco IOS XE software architecture, the IR8300 supports both traditional routing features like OSPF, BGP, QoS as well as Cisco SD-WAN capabilities through vManage integration. The UADP ASIC enables high-performance routing, switching, encryption, and network virtualization. Modular slots allow flexible configurations. Convection cooling, dual PSUs, and compliance with standards like IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3 provide carrier-grade resiliency for harsh industrial environments.