The Cisco® Catalyst® 9500 Series Switches are the next generation of enterprise-class core and aggregation layer switches, supporting full programmability and serviceability. Based on an x86 CPU, the Catalyst 9500 Series is Cisco’s lead purpose-built fixed core and aggregation enterprise switching platform, built for security, IoT, and cloud. The switches come with a 4-core, 2.4-GHz CPU, 16-GB DDR4 memory, and 16-GB internal storage. The Catalyst 9500 Series is the industry’s first purpose-built 40 Gigabit Ethernet line of switches targeted for the enterprise campus. These switches deliver unmatched table scale (MAC/route/ACL) and buffering for enterprise applications. The Catalyst 9500 Series includes nonblocking 40G Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP+) and 1G/10G Small Form-factor Pluggable Plus (SFP/SFP+) switches with granular port densities that fit diverse campus needs. The switches support advanced routing and infrastructure services (such as 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]); and 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.
Products specifications
| Attribute name | Attribute value | 
|---|
| Switching capacity | 64000 Gbit/s | 
| Switching optical modules type | 100 Gigabit Ethernet | 
| Number of VLANs | 4000 | 
| DHCP features | DHCP snooping | 
| QSFP28 ports quantity | 32 | 
| Switch Type | Managed | 
| Built-in processor | Y | 
| MAC address filtering | Y | 
| Power supply included | Y | 
| Access Control List (ACL) | Y | 
| IGMP snooping | Y | 
| MIB support | Y | 
| Product color | Gray | 
| Memory type | DRAM | 
| Internal memory | 16000 MB | 
| Full duplex | Y | 
| Processor frequency | 2400 MHz | 
| MAC address table | None | 
| Rack mounting | Y | 
| Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type | None | 
| AC input frequency | 50/60 Hz | 
| Virtual LAN features | Policy-based VLAN, Private VLAN | 
| Multicast support | Y | 
| Jumbo frames support | Y | 
| Jumbo frames | 9216 | 
| VLAN support | Y | 
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 40 °C | 
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 - 65 °C | 
| Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 5 - 90 % | 
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 5 - 95 % | 
| Flash memory | 16000 MB | 
| Switch layer | L2/L3 | 
| Security algorithms | 256-bit AES | 
| Management protocols | IGMP |