Cisco 9500 Series
Column：Switch Time：2019-04-21
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The Catalyst 9500 Series, including the Catalyst 9500X models, continues to shape the future with continued
innovation that helps you reimagine connections, reinforce security and redefine the experience for your hybrid
workforce big and small.
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 up to
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.
Catalyst 9500 Series 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. The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series also supports foundational high-availability capabilities such as
patching, Cisco Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), redundant platinum-rated power
supplies, and fans, while supporting a wide array of optics. Catalyst 9500 Series switches provide operational
choice of Cisco Catalyst Center, or Meraki cloud monitoring.
All switches ship with the 650W,950W,1500W or 1600W AC power supply as default