Cisco Catalyst 9500 16 Port 10Gigabit Switch

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 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, 2.4 GHz CPU, 16 GB DDR4 memory, and 16 GB internal storage.

The Catalyst 9500 Series is the industry's first purpose built 40 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 Catalyst 9500 Series includes nonblocking 40G Quad Small Form factor Pluggable (QSFP ) and 1G/10G Small Form factor Pluggable Plus (SFP/SFP ) 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]); software defined access border 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 platform also supports all the foundational high availability capabilities such as patching, Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR), Cisco Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), redundant platinum rated power supplies, and fans.