Product overview
C9500-12Q-E, Cisco Catalyst 9500 12x40G switch, NW Essentials License
The Catalyst 9500 Series, including the new Catalyst 9500X models.
Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Data Sheet,
Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches based on Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) are Cisco’s lead fixed enterprise core and aggregation switching platform and as part of the Catalyst 9000 family, are built to transform your network to handle a hybrid world where the workplace is anywhere, endpoints could be anything, and applications are hosted all over the place.
Cisco Catalyst 9500X switch based on Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC is purpose built for the next generation core with a programmable pipeline (P4) and is the first network silicon to offer switching capacity upto 12.8 Tbps full duplex in the enterprise. The Q200 ASIC offers high-performance along with full routing and switching capabilities without external memories. This is enabled by internal architecture that includes an on-chip High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The Catalyst 9500X switch leverages a high- performance multiple core x86 CPU, and is Cisco’s leading purpose-built fixed core and edge services enterprise switching platform, built for security, IoT, and cloud.
Cisco Catalyst 9500X switch is the industry’s first purpose-built fixed 10, 25, 50, 40, 100, 200 and 400 Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted for the enterprise campus. The Catalyst 9500X switch delivers unmatched forwarding scale (MAC addresses, IP unicast and multicast routes, MPLS labels) and deep buffering for enterprise applications. The Catalyst 9500X models includes non-blocking 50 Gigabit Ethernet Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP-56) and non-blocking 400 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) ports.
Cisco Catalyst 9500X models
- The Cisco Silicon One Q200Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is purpose built for the next generation network core + edge switch. It is the first enterprise ASIC to offer speeds up to 12.8 Tbps full duplex with 8 Bpps of forwarding performance, while supporting high-performance and full routing and switching capabilities without external memories.
- The Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC is built on 7nm fabrication technology, capable of high performance while maintaining a low power footprint.
- Up to 12.0 Tbps switching capacity with 8 Bpps forwarding rate
- 80MB of dedicated low-latency buffer, with up to 8GB of HBM buffer for deep packet buffers
- Up to 28 native nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports
- Up to 60 native nonblocking 10/25/50 Gigabit Ethernet SFP56 ports
- Up to 8 native nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit Ethernet QSFPDD ports
- Intel 2.43-GHz x86 CPU with 8 cores and 32-GB of DDR4 memory
- Up to 960 GB of SSD local storage for container-based application hosting (2x 10G KR ports)
- Flexible routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables, ACL tables, and QoS tables.
- ASIC tables for switching scale up to 256K MAC addresses and routing scale up to 2M routes.
- Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations, for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
- Hardware support for Application Hosting
- Hardware support for Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588v2)with accurate clock synchronization and sub- microsecond accuracy, suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency.
- Hardware support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1ae MACsec and WAN-MACsec data encryption.
- Hardware support for line-rate 256-bit IKEv2 ESP IPsec data encryption (C9500X-60L4D only)
- Refer to Platform Detailssection for more information
- Platinum-rated (90% efficient) 1500 Watt AC and/or DC power supplies.
- Field-replaceable, N+1 redundant fan-tray units, with an added flexibility to choose the direction of airflow.
Cisco Catalyst 9500 models
- The 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
- Up to 6.4 Tbps switching capacity with up to 2 Bpps of forwarding performance
- Up to 36 MB of unified buffer per ASIC
- 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 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
- Scalable Layer 3 routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables and Layer 2 switching tables
- Hardware support for Application Hosting (e.g. with Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent).
- 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
- Support for both static and dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT)
- Cisco StackWise Virtual technology, a network system virtualization technology that increases operational efficiency and boosts nonstop communications and scaled system bandwidth. Multichassis EtherChannel can be configured across StackWise-Virtual members for high resiliency
- Platinum-rated (Greater than 90% efficient) AC and/pr DC power supplies
- Field-replaceable fan-tray units
- Meraki Cloud monitoring option
Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches Ordering information
Product number | Description |
C9500X-28C8D-E | Catalyst 9500 28x100G + 8x400G switch, NW Essentials License |
C9500X-28C8D-A | Catalyst 9500 28x100G + 8x400G switch, NW Advantage License |
C9500X-60L4D-E | Catalyst 9500 60x50G + 4x400G switch, NW Essentials License |
C9500X-60L4D-A | Catalyst 9500 60x50G + 4x400G switch, NW Advantage License |
C9500-32C-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 32-port 100G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-32C-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 32-port 100G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-32QC-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 32-port 40G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-32QC-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 32-port 40G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-48Y4C-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 48-port 25G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-48Y4C-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 48-port 25G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-24Y4C-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 24-port 1/10/25G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-24Y4C-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series high performance 24-port 1/10/25G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-24Q-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 24-port 40G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-24Q-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 24-port 40G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-12Q-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 12-port 40G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-12Q-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 12-port 40G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-40X-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-40X-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-16X-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, NW Ess. License |
C9500-16X-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, NW Adv. License |
C9500-48X-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, 8 x 10GE Network Module, NW Ess. License |
C9500-48X-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, 8 x 10GE Network Module, NW Adv. License |
C9500-24X-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, 8 x 10GE Network Module, NW Ess. License |
C9500-24X-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, 8 x 10GE Network Module, NW Adv. License |
C9500-16X-2Q-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, 2 x 40GE Network Module, NW Ess. License |
C9500-16X-2Q-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 16-port 10G switch, 2 x 40GE Network Module, NW Adv. License |
C9500-40X-2Q-E | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, 2 x 40GE Network Module, NW Ess. License |
C9500-40X-2Q-A | Cisco Catalyst 9500 40-port 10G switch, 2 x 40GE Network Module, NW Adv. License |
C9500-NM-2Q | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Network Module 2-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet with QSFP+ for 40X,16X SKU |
C9500-NM-8X | Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Network Module 8-port 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP/SFP+ for 40X,16X SKU |