Cisco Catalyst 9500 16 Port 10Gig Network Advantage Switch

The Cisco® Catalyst® 9500 Series Switches are the next generation of enterprise-class core and aggregation layer switches, featuring full programmability and serviceability.

The Catalyst 9500 16-Port 10Gig Switch is Cisco's top choice for a fixed core and aggregation enterprise switching platform that is built for security, IoT, and the cloud, among other things, on top of an x86 CPU.

Cisco Catalyst 9500 include a 4-core, 2.4-GHz CPU, 16GB DDR4 memory, and 16GB of internal storage.

The Catalyst 9500 Series is the industry's first 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch line designed specifically for enterprise campuses.

These switches provide unrivaled table scale (MAC/route/ACL) and buffering for enterprise applications.

There are non-blocking 40G Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP+) switches and 1G/10G Small Form-factor Pluggable Plus (SFP/SFP+) switches in the Cisco 10 Gig Switch Series with different port densities that can be used on different campuses.

The switches support advanced routing and infrastructure services:

• Multiprotocol Label Switching [MPLS] Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, Multicast VPN [MVPN], and Network Address Translation [NAT]);
• software-defined access border capabilities (such as a host tracking database, cross-domain connectivity, and VPN Routing and Forwarding [VRF]-aware Locator/ID Separation Protocol [LISP]);
• network system virtualization with Cisco StackWise® virtual technology that are critical for their placement in the campus core.

The platform also supports all the foundational high-availability capabilities such as patching, Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR), Cisco Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), redundant platinum-rated power supplies, and fans.