Cisco C9500-24Y4C-E Full English Product Description

Product Overview

The Cisco Catalyst C9500-24Y4C-E is a 1RU fixed high-performance aggregation/core switch preloaded with Network Essentials perpetual license, part of the Catalyst 9500 enterprise flagship switching portfolio. Built on UADP 3.0 programmable ASIC, multi-core x86 CPU and Cisco IOS XE operating system, it features mixed-speed 25G downlinks plus 100G uplinks to deliver flexible high-density fiber connectivity. Optimized for cost-controlled enterprise campus aggregation, small-to-medium data center leaf-spine fabric, and high-speed inter-building backbone networks that require foundational Layer 2/3 forwarding and baseline security without full advanced enterprise fabric features.

Port Configuration

24 × multi-rate SFP28 downlink ports, auto-support 1G / 10G / 25G fiber transceivers
4 × QSFP28 uplink ports, configurable for 40G or 100G fiber uplinks
Out-of-band management interfaces: RJ45 console, Mini-USB console, USB Type-A, dedicated 1G OOB management port
No built-in copper or PoE ports; fully fiber-based high-speed interconnection design

Core Hardware Specifications

Switching Capacity: 2.0 Tbps full-duplex non-blocking
Forwarding Rate: 1 Bpps wire-speed packet forwarding
Form Factor: 1U rack-mount, front-to-back airflow
Memory & Storage: 16 GB DDR4 DRAM, 16 GB SSD flash storage, large unified deep packet buffer for burst traffic absorption
Stacking: StackWise-480 stacking (480 Gbps bandwidth), up to 8 switches per logical stack; supports StackWise Virtual dual-box redundancy
Power & Cooling: Dual hot-swappable platinum-efficiency AC power supply slots; N+1 redundant field-replaceable fan trays
Environmental Range: Operating 0°C–40°C; storage -20°C–65°C; humidity 5%–90% non-condensing
Reliability: MTBF up to 336,780 hours; TAA-compliant for government and regulated deployments

Scalability Table Capacities

MAC Address Table: Up to 82,000 entries
IPv4 Routes: Up to 212,000 indirect + direct routes; 90,000 host/ARP entries
IPv6 Routes: Up to 212,000 indirect + direct routes; 90,000 host entries
Combined IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Routes: 48,000
Hardware-Accelerated Security ACLs: 27,000 entries
Hardware-Accelerated QoS ACLs: 16,000 entries
Flexible NetFlow Records: Up to 98,000
VLAN Support: 4,094 VLAN IDs, full SVI Layer 3 inter-VLAN routing
Jumbo Frame Support: Up to 9198 bytes

Network Essentials (E License) Feature Suite

Layer 2 & Basic Layer 3 Routing

Complete Layer 2 toolkit: STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP, Q-in-Q private VLAN, SPAN/RSPAN
Core dynamic routing: Static routing, RIP, single-area OSPF, EIGRP stub mode, HSRP, VRRP
Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 wire-speed forwarding, basic static NAT/PAT

Foundational Hardware Security

Secure boot, image signature verification, built-in Trust Anchor module
802.1X port authentication, hardware-accelerated 256-bit MACsec encryption, CoPP control plane policing
Standard ACL filtering, zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), baseline threat traffic control

Monitoring & Limited Automation

Management access: CLI, local Web UI, SNMP v2/v3, partial NETCONF/YANG support
Flexible NetFlow, basic telemetry, Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
Restricted Cisco DNA Center compatibility: Only inventory, ZTP and basic monitoring; SD-Access, TrustSec micro-segmentation and full fabric automation require Network Advantage license

High Availability

SSO/NSF graceful restart, cross-stack LACP link aggregation, ISSU hitless stacking firmware upgrade
Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and fans for non-disruptive maintenance

QoS & Multicast

Hierarchical QoS, traffic policing/shaping, WRED congestion avoidance
Standard PIM-SM/SSM multicast for IPTV, video conferencing and media streaming

Key Limitations vs C9500-24Y4C-A (Network Advantage)

No full BGP, multi-area OSPF, full EIGRP, IS-IS, MPLS L2/L3 VPN, MVPN
No VRF-lite multi-tenant segmentation, policy-based routing (PBR), LISP or VXLAN
No Cisco TrustSec SGT micro-segmentation, SD-Access fabric architecture
Unsupported advanced container hosting, full ERSPAN telemetry and fabric-wide segmentation automation

Typical Deployment Scenarios

Mid-to-large campus aggregation layer with mixed 10G/25G server/access uplinks and cost budget constraints
Small-to-medium data center leaf-spine fabric requiring 25G server access + 100G spine uplinks
Inter-campus fiber backbone links without cross-region BGP routing requirements
Government and regulated TAA-compliant enterprise networks with simplified routing policies
Hybrid cloud edge aggregation for bandwidth-heavy virtualized workloads

Short Catalog Version (For BOM & Quotation)

Cisco C9500-24Y4C-E Catalyst 9500 Switch, 24×1/10/25G SFP28 + 4×40/100G QSFP28, Network Essentials License

1RU high-performance multi-speed aggregation/core switch with 24 multi-rate 25G SFP28 downlinks and 4×100G-capable QSFP28 uplinks, UADP 3.0 ASIC, 2.0Tbps switching capacity, StackWise-480 stacking, dual redundant platinum AC power supplies, pre-installed Network Essentials IOS XE license, basic Layer 2/3 routing, hardware MACsec security and limited DNA Center management. Designed for cost-sensitive enterprise campus aggregation and small data center high-density fiber interconnection.


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