Cisco C9500-12Q-E 9500 12-port 40G switch, NW Ess. License

Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) ready for next-generation technologies with its programmable pipeline, microengine capabilities, and template-based, configurable allocation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Quality-of-Service (QoS) entries

Intel 2.4-GHz x86 CPU with up to 120 GB of USB 3.0 or up to 960 GB of SATA SSD storage for container-based application hosting

Up to 6.4-Tbps switching capacity with up to 2 Bpps of forwarding performance

Up to 32 nonblocking 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports

Up to 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports

Up to 48 nonblocking 25 Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 ports

Up to 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports

Platinum-rated AC/DC power supplies

Up to 512,000 Flexible NetFlow (FNF) entries in hardware

Up to 36 MB of unified buffer per ASIC

Up to 212,000 routing entries (IPv4/IPv6) for high-end campus core and aggregation deployments

IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks

IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) built in to provide a better AV experience through improved time synchronization and QoS

Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with sub-microsecond accuracy, making it suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency over the network

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 IOS XE Software, a modern operating system for the enterprise with support for model-driven programmability, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting, and patching for critical bug fixes. The OS also has built-in defenses to protect against
runtime attacks

StackWise Virtual technology, a network system virtualization technology that increases operational efficiency and boosts nonstop communications and scaled system bandwidth