- 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
Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches er den næste generation af enterprise-class core og aggregation layer switches, der understøtter fuld programmerbarhed og servicevenlighed. Catalyst 9500-serien er baseret på en x86-CPU og er Ciscos førende specialbyggede faste kerne- og aggregeringsswitchplatform til virksomheder, bygget til sikkerhed, IoT og cloud. Catalyst 9500-serien er branchens første specialbyggede 40 Gigabit Ethernet-serie af switche, der er målrettet til virksomhedens campus.