The Cisco 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 the 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.
The Cisco switch C9500-16X-A Catalyst 9500 With its 16x 10GB SFP+ ports and front-to-back airflow, it provides efficient connectivity in data centers,This switch has a switching capacity of up to 480 Gbps, ensuring fast and reliable data transfer within your network. The forwarding rate can reach 360 Mpps (million packets per second), enabling smooth traffic flow even during peak usage periods,Equipped with a MAC address table size of 64,000 entries, this switch offers extensive scalability for growing networks. It supports advanced features like VLANs and QoS for improved network management.
| Model | Brand | 
| C9500-16X-A | Cisco | 
| Series | ASIC | 
| Catalyst 9500 Series | UADP 2.0 | 
| Switching capacity | Forwarding rate | 
| Up to 480 Gbps full duplex | Up to 360 Mpps | 
| Total number of MAC addresses | Total number of IPv4 routes (Address Resolution Protocol [ARP] plus learned routes) | 
| Up to 64,000 | Up
  to 64,000 indirect Up to 80,000 host  | 
 
| Total number of IPv6 routes | Multicast scale | 
| Up to 32,000 indirect Up to 40,000 host  | 
  Up to 32,000 (IPv4) Up to 16,000 (IPv6) | 
| QoS ACL scale | Security ACL scale | 
| Up to 18000 | Up to 18000 | 
| FNF entries | DRAM | 
| Up to 512,000 | 16 GB | 
| Flash | VLAN IDs | 
| 16 GB | 4,094 | 
| Total Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) | Jumbo frame | 
| 1,000 | 9198 bytes | 
| Rack Units (RU) | Input voltage | 
| 1 RU | 115 to 230 VAC | 
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | Chassis with 2 power supplies and built-In fan | 
| 1.73 x 17.5 x 21.52 in | 23.6 lb (10.7 kg) | 
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