Catalyst 9500X

The Cisco Silicon One Q200 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is purpose built for the next generation network core + edge switch. It is the first enterprise ASIC to offer speeds up to 12.8 Tbps full duplex with 8 Bpps of forwarding performance, while supporting high-performance and full routing and switching capabilities without external memories.

●      The Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC is built on 7nm fabrication technology, capable of high performance while maintaining a low power footprint.

●      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 for deep packet buffers.

●      Up to 28 native nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports.

●      Up to 60 native nonblocking 10/25/50 Gigabit Ethernet SFP56 ports.

●      Up to 8 native nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit Ethernet QSFPDD ports.

●      Intel 2.3-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 Hosting.