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C8500-20X6C 20-port 1/10GE, 6-port 40/100 GE

Catalyst SD-WAN edge platform with 20 x SFP+ ports and 6 x QSFP+ ports

  • High-density 40/100 and 1/10G, 3RU SD-WAN platform
  • Up to 500-Gbps Cisco Express Forwarding aggregate throughput
  • Built-in interface flexibility (1/10/40/100GE)
  • SD-WAN Manager, Cisco Catalyst Center management, programmable APIs

    Platforms and configurations

    The C8500-20X6C platform (Figure 1) allows all ports to be enabled simultaneously. It offers:

    ●      20x 1/10GE ports

    ●      6x 40/100GE ports

    The C8500-12X4QC platform (Figure 2) allows for a maximum of 240GE ports to be enabled simultaneously. It offers:

    ●      12x 1/10GE ports (can increase to 24x 1/10GE if using 4x10GE breakout from QSFP 40G ports when not in SD-WAN mode)

    ●      3x 40GE ports

    ●      2x 40/100GE ports

    The C8500-12X platform (Figure 3) offers 12x 1/10GE ports.

    The C8500L-8S4X platform (Figure 4) offers 4x 1/10GE and 8x 1GE ports.

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    Product Details

     Catalyst 8500 Edge Platform Product highlights

    Product feature

    Benefits and description

    All-new third-generation Quantum Flow Processor (QFP) ASIC
    ●  Inline hardware-accelerated encryption for high-throughput IPsec and MACsec
    ●  High-performance routing and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with services

    IPsec
    ●  Up to 5X higher IPsec throughput than 2nd Gen QFP devices

    Multicore control processor
    ●  Intel x86 CPU with 16 GB memory default (up to 64 GB memory) for high-speed control plane processes

    Interface flexibility
    ●  Options for 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE ports

    DRAM
    ●  All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms have 16 GB default DRAM and can be upgraded to 32 GB and 64 GB for higher scale. C8500-20X6C has 64GB of DRAM by default
    (Maximum possible)

    SSD storage
    ●  Default 32-GB eUSB for storage with optional 480-GB SSD upgrade. C8500-20X6C has 480-GB-SSD as default (Maximum available).

    Redundancy
    ●  High-efficiency dual power supplies by default for power supply redundancy
    ●  N+1 redundancy (Option N+2 redundancy) High-efficiency power supplies by default for power supply redundancy on the C8500-20X6C
    ●  All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms support software redundancy with 2 Cisco IOS processes running on a single device (IOS XE routing mode)

    Form factor
    ●  Compact 1RU form factor on the C8500-12X and C8500-12X4QC
    ●  Enhanced 3RU form factor C8500-20X6C

    Integrated security
    ●  Hardware-anchored Secure Boot and Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) support for Plug and Play to verify the identity of the hardware and software