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 Catalyst 9500 Series switch C9500-12Q-E , This switch comes with 12 ports, each supporting QSFP+ technology capable of transmitting data up to 40GB per second,With a switching capacity of 960 Gbps and a forwarding rate of 720 Mpps, This switch ensures efficient and fast data transfer within your network infrastructure. The MAC address table size is an impressive limit of 64K entries, enabling seamless communication between devices,One notable feature is its front-to-back airflow design, which helps heat dissipation and promotes better performance reliability by ensuring optimal cooling conditions within server racks.
| Model | Brand | 
| C9500-12Q-E | Cisco | 
| Series | ASIC | 
| Catalyst 9500 Series | UADP 2.0 | 
| Switching capacity | Forwarding rate | 
| Up to 960 Gbps full duplex | Up to 720 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 | 25.75 lb (11.68 kg) | 
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