C9500-40X-10E – Cisco Switch Catalyst 9500

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 purpose-built 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.

Quick Specs

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Product Details

Cisco C9500 Series provide these 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

•Up to 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports

•Platinum-rated AC/DC 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)

•Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables and Layer 2 tables

•Cisco IOS® XE Software, a modern operating system for the enterprise with support for model-driven programmability, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting, and patching for critical bug fixes. The OS also has built-in defenses to protect against

runtime attacks

•StackWise Virtual technology, a network system virtualization technology that increases operational efficiency and boosts nonstop communications and scaled system bandwidth

•SD-Access: With the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series, you can be part of the future of networking with features that include:

-Policy-based automation from edge to cloud

-Segmentation and micro-segmentation made easy, with predictable performance and scalability

-Automation and network assurance through the Cisco DNA Center Appliance

-Faster launch of new business services and significantly improved issue resolution time

•Cisco Plug and Play (PnP) enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering to ease new branch or campus device rollouts or updates to an existing network

•Advanced security:

-Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA): You benefit from the power of machine learning to identify and take actions toward threats or anomalies in your network, including malware detection in encrypted traffic and distributed anomaly detection. Additionally, ETA is able to detect vulnerable implementations in encrypted traffic

-Support for AES-256 with the powerful MACsec 256-bit encryption algorithm available on all models

-Trustworthy solutions: Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play, enabling tamper-proof device identity capability, which secures zero-touch provisioning by allowing your device to show a certificate to the server to be able to get onto your network