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 C9500-32QC-E , offering a switching capacity of up to 3.2 Tbps and a forwarding rate of up to 1 Bpps. With its MAC address table size 82,000, this switch provides efficient connectivity for large-scale deployments,Ideal for data centers and enterprise environments requiring fast and reliable network performance, the switch offers 32 QSFP+ ports that support speeds of up to 40GB each. This switch delivers low latency and high bandwidth capabilities essential for modern networking.
| Model | Brand |
| C9500-32QC-E | Cisco |
| Series | ASIC |
| Catalyst 9500 Series | UADP 3.0 |
| Switching capacity | Forwarding rate |
| Up to 3.2 Tbps full duplex | Up to 1 Bpps |
| Total number of MAC addresses | Total number of IPv4 routes (Address Resolution Protocol [ARP] plus learned routes) |
| Up to 82,000 | Up
to 256,000 indirect + direct Up to 90,000 host |
| Total number of IPv6 routes | Multicast scale |
| Up to 256,000 indirect + direct Up to 90,000 host |
Up to 32,000 (IPv4 or IPv6) |
| QoS ACL scale | Security ACL scale |
| Up to 16000 | Up to 27000 |
| FNF entries | DRAM |
| Up to 256,000 | 16 GB |
| Flash | VLAN IDs |
| 16 GB | 4,094 |
| Total Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) | Jumbo frame |
| 4,000 | 9216 bytes |
| Rack Units (RU) | Input voltage |
| 1 RU | 90 to 264 VAC |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | Chassis with 2 power supplies and built-In fan |
| 1.73 x 17.5 x 18.0 in | 21.85lLb (9.91 kg) |
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