Cisco Catalyst 9500 – Network Advantage – switch – L3 – managed – 48 x 25 Gigabit SFP28 – rack-mountable 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 Catalyst 9500 Series is the industry’s first purpose-built 40 Gigabit Ethernet line of switches targeted for the enterprise campus Up to 960-Gbps switching capacity (IPv4) with up to 1440 Mpps of throughput Up to 24 nonblocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports Platinum-rated AC power supplies Up to 512 000 Flexible NetFlow (FNF) entries in hardware Up to 32 MB of shared buffer per ASIC Up to 64 000 routing entries for high-end campus access and aggregation deployments IPv6 support in hardware providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks Dual-stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration Support for both static and dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT) Scalable routing (IPv4 IPv6 and multicast) tables and Layer 2 tables