Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine Data Sheet
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Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches are purpose-built for resiliency at scale with the industry’s most comprehensive security and allows your business to grow at lowest total operational cost. Built upon the foundation of Catalyst 9000, the Catalyst 9600 Series offers scale and security when always on is a must.
As foundational building blocks for the Cisco Digital Network Architecture, Catalyst 9600 Series switches help customers simplify complexity, optimize IT, and reduce operational costs by leveraging intelligence, automation and human expertise that no other vendor can deliver regardless of where you are in the intent-based networking journey.
Catalyst 9600 Series Switches provide security features that protects the integrity of the hardware as well as the software and all data that flows through the switch. It provides resiliency that keeps your business up and running seamlessly. Combine that with open APIs of Cisco IOS XE and programmability of the UADP ASIC technology, Catalyst 9600 Series switches give you what you need now with investment protection on future innovations.
As the industry’s first purpose-built 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet line of modular switches targeted for the enterprise campus, Catalyst 9600 Series switches deliver unmatched table scale (MAC, route, and Access Control List [ACL]) and buffering for enterprise applications. The Cisco Catalyst 9606R chassis is hardware ready to support a wired switching capacity of up to 25.6 Tbps, with up to 6.4 Tbps of bandwidth per slot. Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series switches support granular port densities that fit diverse campus needs, including nonblocking 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP+, QSFP28) and 1, 10, and 25 GE Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP, SFP+, SFP28) and 10 Gigabit / 5 Gigabit / 2.5 Gigabit / 1 Gigabit / 100 Megabit / 10 Megabit RJ45 copper ports. The switches also 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]); Cisco Software-Defined Access 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 Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series also supports foundational high-availability capabilities such as patching, Cisco Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), redundant platinum-rated power supplies, and fans.
The Foundation of Software-Defined Access
Advanced persistent security threats. The exponential growth of IoT devices. Mobility everywhere. Cloud adoption. All of these require a network fabric that integrates advanced hardware and software innovations to automate, secure, and simplify customer networks. The goal of this network fabric is to enable customer revenue growth by accelerating the rollout of business services.
The Cisco Digital Network Architecture (Cisco DNA) with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) is the network fabric that powers business. It is an open, extensible, software-driven architecture that accelerates and simplifies your enterprise network operations. The programmable architecture frees your IT staff from time-consuming, repetitive network configuration tasks so they can focus instead on innovation that positively transforms your business. SD-Access enables policy-based automation from edge to cloud with foundational capabilities. These include:
● Simplified device deployment
● Unified management of wired and wireless networks
● Network virtualization and segmentation
● Group-based policies
● Context-based analytics
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Chassis
● Hardware ready to support up to 25.6 Tbps in wired switching capacity, with up to 6.4 Tbps of bandwidth per slot.
● Up to 9.6 Tbps in wired switching capacity, with 3 Bpps of forwarding performance with the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
● Up to 48 nonblocking 100 Gigabit Ethernet QSPF28 ports with the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
● Up to 96 nonblocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports with the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
● Up to 192 nonblocking 25 Gigabit/10 Gigabit / 1 Gigabit Ethernet SFP28/SFP+/SFP ports with the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
● Up to 192 non blocking 10 Gigabit / 5 Gigabit / 2.5 Gigabit / 1 Gigabit / 100 Megabit / 10 Megabit RJ45 copper ports with the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
● Platinum-rated AC, DC power supplies.
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1 and Line Cards
● The UADP* 3.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is future-ready for next-generation technologies, with a programmable pipeline, microengine capabilities, and template-based configurable allocation of Layer 2, Layer 3, forwarding, ACL, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) entries.
● It is the first ASIC to support double-width HW tables. This provides equivalent table size and processing performance for IPv4 and IPv6.
● The Supervisor Engine 1, with a 2.0-GHz Intel® x86 CPU with 8 cores, provides up to 960 GB of SATA SSD local storage for container-based application hosting.
● Console supports mini USB and RJ-45 connectivity.
● Supports 2 x USB 3.0 ports.
● Management port supports RJ-45 (1 GE) and SFP+ (10 GE).
● Up to 108 MB of buffer (36 MB of unified buffer per ASIC).
● Line-rate, hardware-based Flexible NetFlow (FNF) delivers flow collection for up to 294,000 flows.
● IPv6 support in hardware provides wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks.
● Dual-stack support for IPv4 and IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations enable IPv4-to-IPv6 migration.
● Flexible routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables, ACL tables, and QoS tables.
Cisco IOS XE
● This modern operating system for the enterprise provides support for model-driven programmability, on-box Python scripting, streaming telemetry, container-based application hosting, and patching for critical bug fixes. Cisco IOS® XE also has built-in defenses to protect against runtime attacks.
● Plug and Play enabled: A simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering eases new branch or campus device rollouts and can also be used to provide updates to an existing network.
● Advanced security
◦ Advanced Encryption Standard 256 (AES-256) support with the powerful MACsec-256 encryption algorithm is available in hardware.
◦ Trustworthy systems: Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play (PnP) tamper-proof device identity capability secures zero-touch provisioning by allowing your device to show a certificate to the server to be able to get on your network.
SD-Access
● SD-Access is Cisco’s leading enterprise architecture. It includes:
◦ Policy-based automation from edge to cloud
◦ Segmentation and micro-segmentation made easy, with predictable performance and scalability
◦ Automation through the Cisco DNA-C Controller
◦ Policy through the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
◦ Network assurance through the Network Data Platform
◦ The ability to launch new business services faster and reduce issue resolution time significantly
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1
Supervisor Engine 1 Chassis and Line Card support
Table 1 shows the supervisor engine and line-card slot assignment options in the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series chassis.
Table 1. Chassis slot assignment options
| Chassis |
Single Supervisor Engine 1 slot assignments |
Redundant Supervisor Engine 1 slot assignments |
Line Card slot options |
| Cisco Catalyst 9606R |
Slot 3 or 4 |
Slot 3 and 4 |
Slots 1 to 2 and 5 to 6 |
Table 2. Minimum software
| Chassis |
Minimum software |
| Cisco Catalyst 9606R |
Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1 |
Table 3 summarizes the performance capacities of the Supervisor Engine 1.
Table 3. Bandwidth per slot for the 9606R chassis
| Supervisor engine |
Bandwidth per slot |
| Supervisor Engine 1 |
2.4 Tbps per slot |
Table 4 summarizes the line-card modules supported on the Supervisor Engine 1.
Table 4. Line-card and module support
| Supervisor engine |
Line Card |
Description |
Minimum software |
| Supervisor Engine 1 |
C9600-LC-24C |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 24-Port 40GE/12-Port 100GE |
Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1 |
| C9600-LC-48YL |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 25GE/10GE/(1GE*) |
Cisco IOS XE 16.11.1 |
|
| C9600-LC-48TX |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-port RJ45 Copper - 10GE/5GE/2.5GE/1GE/100M/10M |
Cisco IOX XE 17.1.1 |
|
| C9600-LC-48S |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 1GE |
Cisco IOX XE 17.2.1 |
Predictable performance and scalability
Table 5 highlights the performance and scalability enhancements of the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
Table 5. Performance and scalability features
| Feature |
Performance and Scalability |
| System Switching Capacity |
Up to 9.6 Tbps1 |
| Per-slot Switching Capacity |
Up to 2.4 Tbps |
| UADP ASICs |
3 |
| Forwarding Rate |
3 Bpps (1 Bpps per ASIC) |
| DRAM |
16 GB |
| Flash |
16 GB |
| SSD capacity |
Up to 960 GB |
| VLAN IDs |
4,094 |
| PVST Instances |
1,000 |
| STP Virtual Ports (Port * VLANs) for PVST |
16,000 |
| STP Virtual Ports (Port * VLANs) for MST |
100,000 |
| Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) |
1,000 |
| Jumbo Frames |
9,216 |
| Total number of MAC Addresses |
Up to 128,0002,3 |
| Total number of IPv4 Routes |
Up to 256,000 (indirect + direct)2,3 |
| Total number of IPv6 Routes |
Up to 256,0002,3 |
| Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries |
Up to 90,000 |
| Multicast Routes |
Up to 32,0002 |
| QoS ACL Scale |
Up to 16,0002 |
| Security ACL Scale |
Up to 27,0002 |
| FNF entries (IPv4/IPv6) |
Up to 384,000 (128,000 per ASIC)2,3 |
| Packet Buffer |
Up to 108 MB (36 MB per ASIC) |
Flexible ASIC templates
Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches use flexible Software Database Manager (SDM) ASIC templates to enable universal deployments by leveraging the UADP’s ability to create resources to optimize table sizes for different places in the network. Based on how the switch is used in the network, an appropriate standard SDM ASIC template may be selected to configure the switch for specific features.
The following SDM ASIC templates are supported on the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series.
● Distribution: Maximizes system resources for MAC and security
● Core: Maximizes system resources for unicast and multicast routing
● NAT: Maximizes system resources for Layer 3 and NAT for collapsed-core WAN deployments
● SD-Access: Maximizes system resources to support fabric deployment1
Learn more. Table 6 describes the standard SDM ASIC templates.
Table 6. SDM template descriptions
| Features |
Distribution Template |
Core Template (Default Template) |
NAT Template |
SD-Access Template1 |
| MAC Addresses |
82,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| IPv4/IPv6 Routes (LPM/Host) |
114,000 |
212,000 |
212,000 |
212,000 |
| Multicast Routes |
16,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| IGMP/MLD Snooping |
2,000 |
2,000 |
2,000 |
2,000 |
| MPLS/SGT Label |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| NetFlow entries |
98,000 |
64,000 |
64,000 |
64,000 |
| NetFlow ACL |
1,000 ingress, |
1,000 ingress, |
1,000 ingress, |
1,000 ingress, |
| Security ACLs |
27,0002 |
27,0002 |
20,0002 |
27,0002 |
| QoS ACLs |
16,0002 |
16,0002 |
8,0002 |
16,0002 |
| PBR/NAT |
3,000 |
3,000 |
15,500 |
2,000 |
| Tunnel/MACsec |
3,000 |
3,000 |
2,000 |
3,000 |
| LISP |
1,000 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
2,000 |
| STP Instances |
1,000 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
| CoPP |
1,000 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
Performance and scalability numbers are per ASIC where applicable, with three ASICs in the 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
Custom ASIC templates
Standard SDM templates can be used to configure system resources and optimize support for specific features. However SDM templates are defined based on how the device is deployed in the network.
Beginning with the Cisco IOS-XE 17.3.1 release, a custom SDM template will allow you to configure the features of the template based on your requirements and not the location of the device in the network.
Table 7. Custom template configurable FIB values
| Features |
Scale Values |
Step Units |
Default Value |
| MAC Addresses |
32,000 – 128,000 |
16,000 |
32,000 |
| IPv4/IPv6 Routes |
64,000 – 256,000 |
16,000 |
64,000 |
| Multicast Routes1 |
0 – 32,000 |
16,000 |
16,000 |
| IGMP/MLD Snooping1 |
0 – 32,000 |
16,000 |
16,000 |
| SGT/MPLS labels2 |
0 – 64,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| Netflow entries – Input3 |
0 – 64,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| Netflow entries – Output3 |
0 – 64,000 |
32,000 |
0 |
| Total Resources |
416,000 |
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Table 8. Custom template configurable ACL values
| Features |
Scale Values |
Step Units |
Default Value |
| Security ACL - Input |
6,000 – 21,000 |
10-90% |
6,000 |
| Security ACL - Output |
6,000 – 21,000 |
10-90% |
21,000 |
| QoS ACL - Input |
2,000 – 14,000 |
10-90% |
8,000 |
| QoS ACL – Output |
2,000 – 14,000 |
10-90% |
8,000 |
| Netflow ACL - Input |
250 – 750 |
10-90% |
512 |
| Netflow ACL - Output |
250 – 750 |
10-90% |
512 |
| Flow SPAN - Input |
250 – 750 |
10-90% |
512 |
| Flow SPAN - Output |
250 –750 |
10-90% |
512 |
| Total Resources |
54,000 |
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Enterprises are in search of ways to transform their operations to add digital capabilities that enhance service delivery and asset management. Cisco SD-Access provides this transformational shift in building and managing networks. It provides faster, easier, and improved business efficiency with investment protection for enhanced business outcomes. By decoupling network functions from hardware, SD-Access helps ensure policy compliance, allows you to launch new business services faster, and improves issue resolution times significantly. At the same time, it is open and extensible and can significantly reduce your operational expenses.
Cisco SD-Access enables policy-based automation from edge to cloud with foundational capabilities. These include simplified device deployment, unified management of wired and wireless networks, network virtualization and segmentation, group-based policies, and context-based analytics. With these fundamental features in place, key use cases can now be orchestrated. These use cases include user mobility, secure segmentation, user onboarding and policies, IoT integration, guest access, context-based troubleshooting, and data center and cloud integration.
Platform benefits
Cisco IOS XE Software
The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series opens a completely new paradigm in network configuration, operation, and monitoring through network automation. Cisco’s automation solution is open, standards based, and extensible across the entire lifecycle of a network device. The various mechanisms that bring about network automation are outlined below, based on a device lifecycle.
● Automated Device Provisioning: This is the ability to automate the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files on Cisco Catalyst switches when they are being deployed in the network for the first time. Cisco provides both turnkey solutions such as Plug and Play and off-the-shelf tools such as Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) that enable an effortless and automated deployment.
● API-driven Configuration: Modern network switches such the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series support a wide range of automation features and provide robust open APIs over Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and RESTCONF using YANG data models for external tools, both off the shelf and custom built, to automatically provision network resources.
● Granular Visibility: Model-driven telemetry provides a mechanism to stream data from a switch to a destination. The data to be streamed is driven through subscription to a data set in a YANG model. The subscribed data set is streamed out to the destination at configured intervals. Additionally, Cisco IOS XE enables the push model, which provides near-real-time monitoring of the network, leading to quick detection and rectification of failures.
● Seamless Software Upgrades and Patching: To enhance OS resilience, Cisco IOS XE supports patching, which provides fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities between regular maintenance releases. This support allows customers to add patches without having to wait for the next maintenance release.
Security
● AES-256 MACsec Encryption: AES is the IEEE 802.1AE standard for authenticating and encrypting packets between switches and endpoints. The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches support 256-bit and 128-bit AES on all ports at all speeds, providing the most secure link encryption (switch to switch).
● Trustworthy Systems: Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies provide a highly secure foundation for Cisco products. With the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series, these trustworthy systems enable hardware and software authenticity assurance for supply chain trust and strong mitigation against man-in-the-middle attacks on software and firmware. Trust Anchor capabilities include:
◦ Image Signing: Cryptographically signed images provide assurance that the firmware, BIOS, and other software are authentic and unmodified. As the system boots, the system's software signatures are checked for integrity.
◦ Secure Boot: Cisco Secure Boot technology anchors the boot sequence chain of trust to immutable hardware, mitigating threats against a system's foundational state and the software that is to be loaded, regardless of a user's privilege level. It provides layered protection against the persistence of illicitly modified firmware.
◦ Cisco Trust Anchor Module: A tamper-resistant, strong cryptographic, single-chip solution provides hardware authenticity assurance to uniquely identify the product so that its origin can be confirmed to Cisco, providing assurance that the product is genuine.
Resiliency and high availability
● Cisco StackWise® Virtual: StackWise Virtual is an advanced stacking technology that supports both distribution and core deployments through multiple topologies. It provides higher scale for system virtualization at the network layer. StackWise Virtual is available starting IOS-XE 16.12.1 release.
● Cisco StackWise® Virtual Quad-Sup Route Processor Redundancy (RPR) mode improves quad-sup functionality and failover behavior in case of supervisor failure which allows automatic failover between all supervisors in case of the failure. Quad Sup RPR Mode is available starting IOS-XE 17.2.1 release
● Software Maintenance Upgrade (SMU): An SMU is a package that can be installed on a system to provide a patch fix or security resolution to a released image. SMUs allow you to address the network issue quickly while reducing the time and scope of the testing required. The Cisco IOS XE platform internally validates the SMU compatibility and does not allow you to install incompatible SMUs. All SMUs are integrated into the subsequent Cisco IOS XE Software maintenance releases.
Flexible NetFlow
● Flexible NetFlow (FNF): FNF is the next generation in flow visibility technology, allowing optimization of the network infrastructure, reducing operation costs, and improving capacity planning and security incident detection with increased flexibility and scalability. The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series is capable of up to 98,000* flow entries per UADP 3.0 ASIC. (*with the Distribution SDM template).
Open Standards Based Fabric
The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches support modern fabric technologies such as VXLAN with BGP-EVPN control plane, with open APIs. This technology provides the flexibility to build open standards based fabrics to secure infrastructure, users and data. This fabric architecture provides rich unicast and multicast protocol support to optimally route or bridge traffic as well as support for integrated campus services all of which can be automated via open APIs to effectively configure and monitor the network.
Programmability
Cisco IOS-XE provides open standards based APIs such as NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI to simplify provisioning and configuration, that allows network administrators to save time when provisioning new network devices and to prevent the human errors that often are a byproduct of manual configuration. Integrating Zero Touch Provisioning with various Devops toolkits allows network admins to drastically reduce the time and resources needed to onboard a device onto their network. The ability to collect real-time statistics through model driven telemetry through gRPC and gNMI allows administrator to integrate to many health monitoring tools to optimize their environments and to troubleshoot and provide alerts about any potential problems.
QoS
Superior QoS: QoS technologies are a set of tools and techniques for managing network resources and are considered the key enabling technologies for the transparent convergence of voice, video, and data networks. QoS on the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series consists of classification and marking, policing and markdown, scheduling, shaping, and queuing functions. A modular QoS command-line framework provides consistent platform-independent and flexible configuration behavior. The 9600 Series also supports 2-level hierarchical or nested policies.
Service discovery
● Multicast DNS (mDNS) Gateway: This service discovery gateway capability facilitates the sharing of services advertised using the Apple mDNS (Bonjour) protocol (such as printers, Apple TVs, and file services across the network). Additionally, the administrator can create policies defining which services can be seen and accessed by the users in the network. This capability facilitates a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) rollout.
Smart operation
● Bluetooth Ready: The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series has hardware support to connect a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle to your switch, enabling you to use this wireless interface as a management port. This port functions as an IP management interface and can be used for configuration and troubleshooting using WebUI or the Command-Line Interface (CLI), and to transfer images and configurations.
● WebUI: WebUI is an embedded GUI-based device-management tool that provides the ability to provision the device, simplifying device deployment and manageability and enhancing the user experience. WebUI comes with the default image. There is no need to enable anything or install any license on the device. You can use WebUI to build a day-1 configuration and from then on monitor and troubleshoot the device without knowing how to use the CLI.
● RFID Tags: The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches have an embedded RFID tag that facilitates easy asset and inventory management using commercial RFID readers.
● Blue Beacon: The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches support a blue beacon LED for easy identification of the switch being accessed.
High-performance IP Routing
● This is the first ASIC to support double-width HW tables, for equivalent table size and processing performance for IPv4 and IPv6.
● IP routing protocols provide the fundamental infrastructure for the delivery of advanced IP services across the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series. Whether based on Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards or Cisco innovations, these protocols enable Cisco to offer the broadest portfolio of IP routing technologies. All share industry-leading scalability, availability, manageability, fast convergence, and high-performance capabilities.
● IP unicast routing protocols (including static; Routing Information Protocol version 1 [RIPv1], version 2 [RIPv2], and next generation [RIPng]; and Open Shortest Path First [OSPF] routed access) are supported for small network routing applications.
● Advanced IP unicast routing protocols (such as OSPF, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [EIGRP], Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 [BGPv4], and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System Version 4 [IS-ISv4]) are supported for load balancing and for constructing scalable LANs. IPv6 routing (using OSPFv3 and EIGRPv6) is supported in hardware for maximum performance.
● Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast routing is supported, including PIM Sparse Mode (PIM SM), bidirectional PIM, and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM).
● IPv6 addressing is supported on interfaces with appropriate show commands for monitoring and troubleshooting.
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches support Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) which combines the performance and capabilities of Layer 2 (data link layer) switching with the proven scalability of Layer 3 (network layer) routing. MPLS enables the explosive growth in network utilization while providing the opportunity to differentiate services without sacrificing the existing network infrastructure. MPLS support incluses
● MPLS L3 VPN: An MPLS Virtual Private Network (VPN) consists of a set of sites that are interconnected by means of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) provider core network. At each customer site, one or more Customer Edge (CE) devices attach to one or more Provider Edge (PE) devices.
● VPLS: VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) enables enterprises to link together their Ethernet-based LANs from multiple sites via the infrastructure provided by their service provider.
● EoMPLS: EoMPLS is a category of Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) to transport Layer 2 packets over an MPLS backbone.
● MPLS over GRE: L3VPN over GRE and VPLS over GRE, are supported to tunnel MPLS/VPLS packets over non-MPLS networks utilizing GRE tunneling
Packaging: Network and Cisco DNA Licensing
The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family of switches introduces new packaging that includes vastly simplified base network packages (Network Advantage) and term-based software packages (Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier) as add-ons. The Cisco DNA packages, in addition to on-box capabilities, also unlock additional functionality in Cisco DNA Center, enabling controller-based software-defined automation in your network.
For information about feature support on specific models, please refer to the Cisco Feature Navigator (https://cfn.cloudapps.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp) and the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Release Notes.
License consumption is further simplified to the following combinations:
Advantage: This consists of Perpetual Network Advantage and a term-based (3-, 5-, or 7-year) Cisco DNA Advantage package.
Note that it is not required to deploy Cisco DNA Center just to use one of the above packages. Refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/software/one-wireless-subscription/q-and-a-c67-739601.pdf for additional details about Advantage packages.
Cisco DNA Premier subscription
Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions offer a flexible way to buy software for the access, WAN, core, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions help make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier. Cisco DNA Premier subscriptions provide:
● Flexible licensing models to smoothly distribute customers’ software spending over time
● Investment protection for software purchases through software services-enabled license portability
● Lower cost of entry with the new Cisco DNA Premier Subscription for Switching model
For ordering information for Cisco DNA Premier Software for Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches, go to: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/one-subscription-switching/index.html.
Table 9 lists the features of the Network Advantage packages. Table 8 lists the features of the Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier packages.
Table 9. Network advantage package features
| Features |
Network Advantage |
| Switch Fundamentals |
✓ |
| Advanced Switch Capabilities and Scale |
✓ |
| Network Segmentation |
✓ |
| Automation |
✓ |
| Telemetry and Visibility |
✓ |
| High Availability and Resiliency |
✓ |
| Security |
✓ |
Table 10. Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier package features
| Features |
Cisco DNA Advantage |
Cisco DNA Premier |
| Switch Features |
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| Optimized Network Deployments |
✓ |
✓ |
| Advanced Telemetry and Visibility |
✓ |
✓ |
| Optimized Telemetry and Visibility |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cisco DNA Center Features |
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| Day-0 Network Bring-up Automation |
✓ |
✓ |
| Element Management |
✓ |
✓ |
| Element Management |
✓ |
✓ |
| Basic Assurance |
✓ |
✓ |
| SD-Access Policy-based automation and assurance for wired and wireless |
✓ |
✓ |
| Network Assurance and Analytics** |
✓ |
✓ |
Table 11 lists physical specifications of the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1.
Table 11. Physical specifications
| Description |
Specifications |
| SKU |
C9600-SUP-1 |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) |
1.7 x 15.0 x 13.41 in. (4.32 x 38.1 x 34.06 cm) to faceplate 1.7 x 15.0 x 15.7 in. (4.32 x 38.1 x 39.88 cm) to ejector |
| Weight |
5.45 Kg (12.02 lb) |
| Rack Units (RU) |
1 RU |
| Operating Temperature |
-5° to 45° C (23° to 113° F) up to 6000 feet -5° to 40° C (23° to 104° F) up to 10,000 feet |
| Storage Temperature |
-40° to 75° C (40° to 167° F) |
| Relative Humidity, Operating and Non-operating, Non-condensing |
10% to 95%, noncondensing |
| Altitude |
-60 to 3000 m (-197 to 9843 feet) |
| Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) (hours) |
271,420 |
Supported optics
For details about the different optical modules and the minimum Cisco IOS Software release required for each of the supported optical modules, visit https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/
Management and standards support
Table 12 shows management and standards support for the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series.
Table 12. Management and standards support
| Description |
Specification |
| Management |
BGP4-MIB BRIDGE-MIB CISCO-ACCESS-ENVMON-MIB CISCO-AUTH-FRAMEWORK-MIB CISCO-BGP4-MIB CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB CISCO-BULK-FILE-MIB CISCO-CABLE-DIAG-MIB CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB CISCO-CEF-MIB CISCO-CLASS-BASED-QOS-MIB CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB CISCO-DATA-COLLECTION-MIB CISCO-DHCP-SNOOPING-MIB CISCO-EIGRP-MIB CISCO-EMBEDDED-EVENT-MGR-MIB CISCO-ENHANCED-IMAGE-MIB CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB CISCO-ENVMON-MIB CISCO-ERR-DISABLE-MIB CISCO-FLASH-MIB CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB CISCO-HSRP-EXT-MIB CISCO-HSRP-MIB CISCO-IETF-BFD-MIB CISCO-IETF-DHCP-SERVER-EXT-MIB CISCO-IETF-DHCP-SERVER-MIB CISCO-IETF-ISIS-MIB CISCO-IETF-PPVPN-MPLS-VPN-MIB CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB CISCO-IGMP-FILTER-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-LICENSE-MGMT-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-MIB CISCO-IP-CBR-METRICS-MIB CISCO-IP-STAT-MIB CISCO-IP-URPF-MIB CISCO-IPMROUTE-MIB CISCO-IPSLA-AUTOMEASURE-MIB CISCO-IPSLA-ECHO-MIB CISCO-IPSLA-JITTER-MIB CISCO-L2-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-L2L3-INTERFACE-CONFIG-MIB CISCO-LAG-MIB CISCO-LICENSE-MGMT-MIB CISCO-LISP-EXT-MIB CISCO-LOCAL-AUTH-USER-MIB CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-MIB CISCO-MAC-NOTIFICATION-MIB CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB CISCO-MPLS-LSR-EXT-STD-MIB CISCO-NHRP-EXT-MIB CISCO-NTP-MIB CISCO-OSPF-MIB CISCO-OSPF-TRAP-MIB CISCO-PAE-MIB CISCO-PAGP-MIB CISCO-PIM-MIB CISCO-PING-MIB CISCO-PKI-MIB CISCO-PORT-SECURITY-MIB CISCO-PORT-STORM-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-PRIVATE-VLAN-MIB CISCO-PROCESS-MIB CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB CISCO-RESILIENT-ETHERNET-PROTOCOL-MIB CISCO-RTTMON-ICMP-MIB CISCO-RTTMON-IP-EXT-MIB CISCO-RTTMON-MIB CISCO-RTTMON-RTP-MIB CISCO-SNMP-TARGET-EXT-MIB CISCO-STP-EXTENSIONS-MIB CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB CISCO-TCP-METRICS-MIB CISCO-TCP-MIB CISCO-TRUSTSEC-INTERFACE-MIB CISCO-TRUSTSEC-MIB CISCO-TRUSTSEC-POLICY-MIB CISCO-TRUSTSEC-SERVER-MIB CISCO-TRUSTSEC-SXP-MIB CISCO-UDLDP-MIB CISCO-VLAN-IFTABLE-RELATIONSHIP-MIB CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB CISCO-VRF-MIB CISCO-VTP-MIB ENTITY-MIB ENTITY-STATE-MIB EtherLike-MIB HC-ALARM-MIB HC-RMON-MIB IEEE8021-PAE-MIB IEEE8023-LAG-MIB IF-MIB IGMP-STD-MIB IP-FORWARD-MIB IP-MIB IPMROUTE-STD-MIB LISP-MIB LLDP-EXT-MED-MIB LLDP-MIB MAU-MIB MPLS-L3VPN-STD-MIB MPLS-LDP-GENERIC-STD-MIB MPLS-LDP-MIB MPLS-LSR-STD-MIB MPLS-VPN-MIB MSDP-MIB NHRP-MIB NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB NTPv4-MIB OLD-CISCO-CHASSIS-MIB OLD-CISCO-CPU-MIB OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB OLD-CISCO-IP-MIB OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB OLD-CISCO-SYS-MIB OLD-CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB OLD-CISCO-TCP-MIB OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB OSPF-MIB OSPF-TRAP-MIB OSPFV3-MIB PIM-MIB RFC1213-MIB RMON-MIB RMON2-MIB SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB SNMP-MPD-MIB SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB SNMP-PROXY-MIB SNMP-TARGET-MIB SNMP-USM-MIB SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB SNMPv2-MIB TCP-MIB UDP-MIB CISCO-802-TAP-MIB CISCO-TAP2-MIB CISCO-IP-TAP-MIB |
| Standards |
IEEE 802.1s IEEE 802.1w IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.3ae for 10G SKU IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3by IEEE 802.1X-Rev IEEE 802.3ad IEEE 802.3x full duplex on 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T ports IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1p CoS prioritization IEEE 802.1Q VLAN IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T specification IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX specification IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T specification IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X specification RMON I and II standards SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 |
Safety and compliance
Table 13. Safety and compliance information
| Description |
Specification |
| Safety Certifications |
9606R
● IEC 60950-1 plus Am1, Am2, Am9, Am10, Am11, Am12 and all deviations and differences
● AS/NZS 60950.1.2011
● CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-07
● GB 4943-95
● EN 60950-1; 2006 plus Am1, Am 2, Am9, Am10, Am11, Am12 and all deviations and differences
● NOM-019-SCFI-1998
● UL 60950-1, Second Edition
|
| EMI and EMC Compliance |
47 CFR Part 15 Class A CNS13438: 2006 Class A EN 300 386 V1.6.1 EN61000-3-2: 2014 EN61000-3-3: 2013 ICES-003 Issue 6: 2016 Class A KN 32: 2015 Class A TCVN 7189: 2009 Class A EN 55032:2012/ AC:2013 Class A EN 55032:2015 Class A CISPR 32 Edition 2 Class A V-2/2015.04 Class A V-3/2015.04 Class A CISPR24: 2010 + A1: 2015 EN 300 386 V1.6.1 EN55024: 2010 + A1: 2015 KN35: 2015 TCVN 7317: 2003 |
Cisco environmental sustainability
Information about Cisco’s environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for our products, solutions, operations, and extended operations or supply chain is provided in the “Environment Sustainability” section of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report.
Reference links to information about key environmental sustainability topics (mentioned in the “Environment Sustainability” section of the CSR Report) are provided in the following table:
| Sustainability topic |
Reference |
| Information on product material content laws and regulations |
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| Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including products, batteries, and packaging |
Cisco makes the packaging data available for informational purposes only. It may not reflect the most current legal developments, and Cisco does not represent, warrant, or guarantee that it is complete, accurate, or up to date. This information is subject to change without notice.
Cisco Enhanced Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty
The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches come with an Enhanced Limited Lifetime Warranty (E-LLW) that includes Next-Business-Day (NBD) delivery of replacement hardware where available and 90 days of 8x5 Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support.
Your formal warranty statement, including the warranty applicable to Cisco software, appears in the information packet that accompanies your Cisco product. We encourage you to review the warranty statement shipped with your specific product carefully before use.
Cisco reserves the right to refund the purchase price as its exclusive warranty remedy.
For further information about warranty terms, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/warranty. Table 12 provides information about the E-LLW.
Table 14. E-LLW details
| Cisco E-LLW |
|
| Devices Covered |
Applies to Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches. |
| Warranty Duration |
As long as the original customer owns the product. |
| End-of-Life Policy |
In the event of discontinuance of product manufacture, Cisco warranty support is limited to 5 years from the announcement of discontinuance. |
| Hardware Replacement |
Cisco or its service center will use commercially reasonable efforts to ship a replacement for NBD delivery, where available. Otherwise, a replacement will be shipped within 10 working days after receipt of the Return Materials Authorization (RMA) request. Actual delivery times might vary depending on customer location. |
| Effective Date |
Hardware warranty commences from the date of shipment to customer (and in case of resale by a Cisco reseller, not more than 90 days after original shipment by Cisco). |
| TAC Support |
Cisco will provide during business hours, 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, basic configuration, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of device-level problems for up to a 90-day period from the date of shipment of the originally purchased Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series product. This support does not include solution or network-level support beyond the specific device under consideration. |
| Cisco.com access |
Warranty allows guest access only to Cisco.com. |
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Table 15. Technical Services
| Cisco Technical Services |
| Cisco Smart Net Total Care® Service
● Around-the-clock, global access to the Cisco TAC
● Unrestricted access to the extensive Cisco.com knowledge base and tools
● NBD, 8x5x4, 24x7x4, and 24x7x2 advance hardware replacement and onsite parts replacement and installation available
● Ongoing operating system software updates within the licensed feature set
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● Proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on Smart Call Home-enabled devices
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| Cisco Solution Support Service
● Provides a team of experts who act as primary point of contact to deliver centralized support, including in multivendor network environments
● Speed is paramount when problems arise, so we deliver on a 30-minute service level objective and prioritize Solution Support cases
● Expert guidance helps to enhance IT operations with fewer outages and faster problem resolution while maximizing performance and reliability of Catalyst 9600 Series Switches
● We even look beyond identified problems and provide the necessary guidance needed to help you avoid any pitfalls before they can disrupt IT or your business
|
Learn more about available services.
Software Policy for Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches
Software Policy for Network Stack components
Customers with the Network Essentials Stack and Network Advantage Stack software feature sets will be provided with maintenance updates and bug fixes designed to maintain the compliance of the software with published specifications, release notes, and industry standards as long as the original end user continues to own or use the product or up to one year from the end-of-sale date for this product, whichever occurs earlier.
Cisco Software Support Service for Cisco DNA Term components
Cisco Software Support Service (SWSS) delivers the right support for Cisco software products and suites. It will keep your business applications performing as expected and protects your investment. Cisco SWSS for Cisco DNA Essentials and Cisco DNA Advantage term components is included as part of the switch value. SWSS provides access to TAC support, major software updates, maintenance and minor software releases, and the Cisco Software Support site for increased productivity with anytime access.
Table 16 contains ordering information for the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series.
Table 16. Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series ordering information
| Product Number |
|
| C9600-LC-48YL (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 25GE/10GE/1GE |
| C9600-LC-48TX (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-port RJ45 Copper - 10GE/5GE/2.5GE/1GE/100M/10M |
| C9600-LC-48S (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 1GE |
| Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series C9606 Chassis Fan Tray |
|
| C9K-F2-SSD-240GB (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 240GB SSD Storage |
| C9K-F2-SSD-480GB (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 480GB SSD Storage |
| C9K-F2-SSD-960GB (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 960GB SSD Storage |
| Cisco DNA Term Licenses |
Description |
| C9600-DNA-A |
C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage Term License |
| C9600-DNA-A-3Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage 3 Year License |
| C9600-DNA-A-5Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage 5 Year License |
| C9600-DNA-A-7Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage 7 Year License |
| C9600-DNA-P |
C9600 Cisco DNA Premier License |
| C9600-DNA-P-3Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Premier 3 Year Term License |
| C9600-DNA-P-5Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Premier 5 Year Term License |
| C9600-DNA-P-7Y |
C9600 Cisco DNA Premier 7 Year Term License |
| CAT-DNA-P-ADD |
Cisco DNA Premier Catalyst Add-on |
| CAT-DNA-P-ADD-3Y |
Cisco DNA Premier Catalyst Add-on, 3 Year Term License |
| CAT-DNA-P-ADD-5Y |
Cisco DNA Premier Catalyst Add-on, 5 Year Term License |
| CAT-DNA-P-ADD-7Y |
Cisco DNA Premier Catalyst Add-on, 7 Year Term License |
| Power Supplies |
Description |
| C9600-PWR-2KWAC (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 2000W AC Power Supply |
| C9600-PWR-2KWDC (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 2000W DC Power Supply |
| Spare Accessories and Kits |
Description |
| C9606-SLOT-BLANK (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Blank for Chassis Module Slot |
| C9606-PWR-BLANK (=) |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Blank for Chassis Power Supply Slot |
| CAB-CONSOLE-USB |
Console Cable 6ft with USB Type A and mini-B |
| CAB-CONSOLE-RJ45 |
Console Cable 6ft with RJ45 and DB9F |
| C9606-RACK-KIT= |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 6 slot chassis Rack Mount |
| C9606-ACC-KIT= |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 6 slot chassis Accessory Kit |
| C9606-SHELF-KIT= |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 6 slot chassis Shelf Install Kit |
| C9606-FB-23-KIT= |
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 6 slot chassis Front to Back Kit |
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| New or Revised Topic |
Described In |
Date |
| Added Custom SDM template section |
Table 7 and 8 |
07/20/2020 |
| Added C90600-LC-48S section |
All applicable tables |
03/17/2020 |
| Added C9600-LC-48TX sections |
All applicable tables |
11/25/2019 |
| Original version of C9600 Supervisor data sheet |
Data sheet |
03/25/2019 |