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-2Q-E are the next generation of Core and enterprise-class switches, supporting superior programmability and serviceability. Based on the x86 CPU architecture, the switch is a fixed core and consolidated enterprise transformation platform built on Cisco's dedicated platform, built for security, IoT and the cloud. The Switch comes with a 4-core x86 CPU, 2.4 GHz, 16 GB DDR4 memory, and in-memory of 16 GB,The Switch supports Cisco's latest routing technologies and infrastructure services (including 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 host tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, VPN Routing and Forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]); network virtualization system with Cisco StackWise virtualization technology ®. The Cisco C9500-16X-2Q-E Switch also supports high availability capabilities such as patching, Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR), Cisco Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), replaceable power and fan and backup.
| Model | Brand |
| C9500-16X-2Q-E | Cisco |
| Series | ASIC |
| Catalyst 9500 Series | UADP 2.0 |
| Switching capacity | Forwarding rate |
| Up to 480 Gbps | 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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