- 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.
- Powering the Next Generation
- Fixed Campus Core and Aggregation
Orderability June 2017
Sample RFID tag data
- SN = ‘FOC2109Q023’
- PID = ‘C9500-24Q’
- VID = ‘V00’
- TAN = ’68-100900-02′
- TAN Rev = ’10’
- CLEI = ‘UNDEFINED’
- Index = ‘900’
- Encode = ‘SGTIN-198‘
- Filter = ‘0‘
- Partition = ‘5’
- Company = ‘0746320’
Catalyst 9500 Series Blue beacon
Sample configuration
- C9500(config)#hwmodule beacon?
- – Off Turn the beacon LED off
- – On Turn the beacon LED on
Optics supported on C9500-24Q and C9500-12Q-40G optics
Optics | Description |
For 16.5: | |
| QSFP-40G-SR4 | 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ transceiver module for MMF |
| QSFP-40G-SR4-S | S Class 40G module |
| QSFP-40G-CSR4 | 300M QSFP module |
| QSFP-40G-LR4 | 40GBASE-LR4 QSFP+ transceiver for single mode fiber |
| QSFP-40G-LR4-S | S Class 40G module |
| QSFP-40G-ER4 | 40GBASE-ER4 QSFP+ transceiver module |
| QSFP-40G-SR-BD | QSFP bidi module |
| QSFP-H40G-CU1M | QSFP passive copper cable |
| QSFP-H40G-CU3M | QSFP passive copper cable |
| QSFP-H40G-CU5M | QSFP passive copper cable |
| QSFP-H40G-ACU7M | QSFP active copper cable |
| QSFP-H40G-ACU10M | QSFP active copper cable |
Optics supported on C9500-24Q and C9500-12Q-40G/10G/1G optics
Optics | Description |
For 16.5: | |
| QSFP-4x10G-LR-S (40G mode only) | 4x10GBASE-LR |
| CVR-QSFP-SFP10G (10G optics only) | QSFP 40G to SFP+ 10G adapter |
| SFP-10G-SR | |
| SFP-10G-LR | |
| SFP-10G-ER | |
| SFP-10G-ZR | |
| DWDM-SFP10G-xx.xx |
Optics Supported on C9500-40X-1G Optics
Optics | Description |
For 16.5: | |
| GLC-SX-MM | 1-Gbps MMF fiber module (obsolete) |
| GLC-LH-SM | 1-Gbps SMF fiber module (obsolete) |
| GLC-ZX-SM | 1-Gbps SMF long-range fiber module (obsolete) |
| GLC-SX-MMD | Module with Quack |
| GLC-LH-SMD | Module with Quack |
| GLC-EX-SMD | Module with Quack |
| GLC-ZX-SMD | Module with Quack |
| GLC-T | Tri-speed copper module (obsolete) |
| GLC-TE | Tri-speed copper module with Quack |
| GLC-BX-U | 1G bidi module (upstream) |
| GLC-BX-D | 1G bidi module (downstream) |
| GLC-GE-100FX | Tom Sawyer module for 100FX |
| CWDM-SFP | Various wavelengths |
| DWDM-SFP | Various wavelengths |
Optics supported on C9500-40X-10G optics
Optics | Description |
For 16.5: | |
| SFP-10G-SR | 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver module for MMF |
| SFP-10G-SR-S | S Class 10G module |
| SFP-10G-LR | 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver module for SMF |
| SFP-10G-LR-S | S Class 10G module |
| SFP-10G-LRM | 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver module for MMF and SMF |
| SFP-10G-ER | 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver module for SMF |
| SFP-10G-ER-S | S Class 10G module |
| SFP-10G-ZR | 10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver module for SMF |
| SFP-10G-ZR-S | S Class 10G module |
| SFP-H10GB-CU1M | Passive copper cable |
| SFP-H10GB-CU3M | Passive copper cable |
| SFP-H10GB-CU5M | Passive copper cable |
| SFP-H10GB-ACU7M | Active copper cable |
| SFP-H10GB-ACU10M | Active copper cable |
| DWDM-SFP10G | Various wavelengths |
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