Description

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is Cisco’s lead purpose-built fixed core and aggregation enterprise switching platform, built for security, IoT, and cloud.  The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series is the industry’s first purpose-built 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet line of switches targeted for the enterprise campus. These switches deliver unmatched table scale (MAC/route/ACL) and buffering for enterprise applications. The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series includes nonblocking 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP+, QSFP28) and 1, 10 and 25 Gigabit Ethernet Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP/SFP+/SFP28) switches with granular port densities that fit diverse campus needs. The switches support advanced routing and infrastructure services (such as Multiprotocol Label Switching [MPLS] Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, Multicast VPN [MVPN], and Network Address Translation [NAT]); Cisco Software-Defined Access capabilities (such as a host tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, and VPN Routing and Forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]); and network system virtualization with Cisco StackWise® virtual technology that are critical for their placement in the campus core.

Product Overview:

• 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 3.2-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/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