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 C9500-40X-10A switch powered by Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC, is purpose-built for the next-gen core, offering a programmable pipeline (P4). With switching capacity up to 12.8 Tbps full duplex, it excels in the enterprise, providing high-performance, full routing and switching capabilities without external memories. The Q200 ASIC, featuring on-chip High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), ensures efficient operation. The Catalyst 9500X is equipped with a high-performance multiple-core x86 CPU, serving as Cisco's premier fixed core and edge services enterprise switching platform. It caters to security, IoT, and cloud requirements, making it the industry's first fixed 10, 25, 50, 40, 100, 200, and 400 Gigabit Ethernet switch tailored for the enterprise campus. Offering unparalleled forwarding scale and deep buffering for enterprise applications, the Catalyst 9500X includes non-blocking 50 Gigabit Ethernet SFP-56 and non-blocking 400 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP-DD ports.
| Model | Brand |
| C9500-40X-10A | Cisco |
| Series | ASIC |
| Catalyst 9500 Series | UADP 2.0 |
| Switching capacity | Forwarding rate |
| Up to 960 Gbps | 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) or 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) | MTBF (hours) |
| 1.73 x 17.5 x 21.52 in | 277,310 |
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