Overview

Cisco Catalyst 8500 and 8500L Series Edge platforms significantly increases services performance, router throughput, and router scale at lower costs.

This document covers configuration details for the following models:

  • Catalyst 8500 Platforms (C8500-12X4QC, C8500-12X and C8500-20X6C)

  • Catalyst 8500L Platform (C8500L-8S4X)

Table 1. Catalyst 8500 and 8500L Platforms

Features

C8500-12X4QC

C8500-12X

C8500-20X6C

C8500L-8S4X

Support for In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Data plane processing

QFP 3.0

QFP 3.0

QFP 3.0

Software-based

Support for Unified Threat Defense(UTD)

Not supported

Not supported

Not Supported

Support exists

Support for Fast Reroute(FRR)

Not supported

Not supported

Support exists

Not supported

Dynamic allocation of cores

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported