Cisco Switch Catalyst 9500

Cisco Switch Catalyst 9500

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is the first 40-Gb switch purpose-built for the enterprise campus. Designed for security, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the cloud, the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is the next generation of the most widely deployed switching platform. Catalyst 9500 fixed-core switches are a building block for Software-Defined Access, Cisco’s leading enterprise architecture.

OVERVIEW The Cisco® Catalyst® 9500 Series switches are the next generation of enterprise-class core and aggregation layer switches, supporting full programmability and serviceability. Based on an x86 CPU, the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is Cisco’s lead purposebuilt fixed core and aggregation enterprise switching platform, built for security, IoT, and cloud. The switches come with a 4-core x86, 2.4-GHz CPU, 16-GB DDR4 memory, and 16-GB internal storage. APPEARANCE All switches ship with the 650W/950W/1600W AC power supply as default. Figures 1 through 8 show the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches. Figure 1. C9500-32C: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high-performance switch with 32x 100 Gigabit Ethernet Figure 2. C9500-32QC: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high-performance switch with 32x 40 Gigabit Ethernet Figure 3. C9500-48Y4C: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high-performance switch with 48x 25 Gigabit Ethernet + 4x 100G Uplink Figure 4. C9500-24Y4C: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high-performance switch with 24x 25 Gigabit Ethernet + 4x 100G Uplink Figure 5. C9500-24Q: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switch with 24x 40 Gigabit Ethernet Figure 6. C9500-12Q: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switch with 12x 40 Gigabit Ethernet ROUTER-SWITCH.COM 3 Figure 7. C9500-40X: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switch with 40x 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Figure 8. C9500-16X: Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switch with 16x 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Product highlights ▶Cisco Unified Access™ Data Plane (UADP) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) ready for next-generation technologies with its programmable pipeline, microengine capabilities, and template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality-of-Service (QoS) entries ▶Intel® 2.4-GHz x86 CPU with up to 120 GB of USB 3.0 or up to 960 GB of SATA SSD storage for container-based application hosting ▶Up to 6.4-Tbps switching capacity with up to 2 Bpps of forwarding performance ▶Up to 32 nonblocking 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports ▶Up to 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports ▶Up to 48 nonblocking 25 Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 ports ▶Platinum-rated AC power supplies ▶Up to 512,000 Flexible NetFlow (FNF) entries in hardware ▶Up to 36 MB of unified buffer per ASIC ▶Up to 212,000 routing entries (IPv4/IPv6) for high-end campus core and aggregation deployments ▶IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks ▶IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) built in to provide a better AV experience through improved time synchronization and QoS ▶Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with sub-microsecond accuracy, making it suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency over the network ▶Dual-stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations, for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration ▶Support for both static and dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT)