Description

Cisco Catalyst9500-12Q Dubai

The Cisco Catalyst9500-12Q Dubai stands as a contemporary Ethernet switch, boasting comprehensive serviceability and programmability. Powered by an x86 CPU, it serves as Cisco’s premier purpose-built fixed core and aggregation enterprise switching platform, tailored to meet the demands of security, IoT, and cloud applications. The C9500-12Q model is equipped with a 4-core x86, 2.4-GHz CPU, 16-GB DDR4 memory, and 16-GB internal storage.

Functioning as the pioneering purpose-built 40 Gigabit Ethernet line of switches in the industry, the Cisco Catalyst9500-12Q Dubai targets the enterprise campus. This series of switches delivers unparalleled table scale (MAC/route/ACL) and buffering capabilities for diverse enterprise applications. Featuring nonblocking 40G Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) and 10G Small Form-factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) switches, it offers granular port densities that cater to various campus requirements. These switches support advanced routing and infrastructure services, including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, Multicast VPN (MVPN), and Network Address Translation (NAT). They also incorporate 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). Additionally, the switches facilitate network system virtualization with Cisco StackWise virtual technology, crucial for their deployment in the campus core.

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

Features :

• Up to 12.0 Tbps switching capacity with 8 Bpps forwarding rate
• 80MB of dedicated low-latency buffer, with up to 8GB of HBM buffer
• Up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports
• Up to 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit Ethernet QSFPDD ports
• Intel 2.43-GHz x86 CPU with 8 cores and 32-GB of DDR4 memory
• Up to 960 GB of SSD local storage for container-based application hosting (2x 10G KR ports)
• Flexible routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables, ACL tables, and QoS tables.
• ASIC tables for switching scale up to 256K MAC addresses and routing scale up to 2M routes.
• Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations, for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
• Hardware support for Application Hosting¹(e.g. with Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent).
• Hardware support for Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588v2)¹with accurate clock synchronization and sub- microsecond accuracy, suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency.
• Hardware support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1ae MACsec and WAN-MACsec¹data encryption.
• Platinum-rated (90% efficient) 1500 Watt AC and/or DC power supplies.
• Field-replaceable fan-tray units, with an added flexibility to choose the direction of airflow.

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