The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series platform is a modular switch based on the Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) 3.0 ASIC (Supervisor 1) and Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC (Supervisor 2), which not only protects your investment but also allows a larger scale and higher throughput (Figure 1). The platform runs on the modern modular, open Cisco IOS XE operating system, which supports model-driven programmability, has the capacity to host containers with support for up to 960 GB of solid-state (SSD) storage, and can run third-party applications and scripts natively within the switch (by virtue of the x86 CPU architecture, local storage, and a higher memory footprint).
The modern operating system offers enhanced high availability features such as In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), Stateful Switchover (SSO), Software Maintenance Upgrades (SMU), Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR), and Cisco StackWise Virtual technology. Improved high availability is also added via Titanium/Platinum-efficient, redundant power supplies as well as variable-speed, highly efficient redundant fans.
Chassis
The Cisco Catalyst 9606R is a 6-slot chassis. Two middle slots (slots 3 and 4) are dedicated for supervisors only, and they work in Route Processor Redundancy (RPR) mode. The top and bottom two slots are for line cards. The chassis is designed to provide up to 6.4 Tbps (3.2 Tbps for transmitting and 3.2 Tbps for receiving) from each of the supervisor slots to each of the line card slots. This means the system can provide 32 ports of 100G at line rate for each line card slot. The 9606R chassis can provide port density of 8x 400G (QSFP-DD) / 16 x 200G2 (QSFP56) / 128x 100G/40G (QSFP) ports/192x 50G2/25G/10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M ports. The backplane of the chassis is passive, which brings the following benefits:
— Lower power consumption
— Higher Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
— Fan tray, power supplies, and line cards are field replaceable and can be replaced nondestructively
Supervisors
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches offer two supervisors: Supervisor Engine 1 and Supervisor Engine 2.
— The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 1 (Sup-1) is powered with three UADP 3.0 Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) (Figure 2). Each ASIC is capable of 3.2 Tbps (1.6 Tbps full duplex) switching capacity and up to 1 Bpps of forwarding performance. Together, the three UADP 3.0 ASICs with Sup-1 provide 9.6 Tbps of switching capacity and up to 3 Bpps of forwarding performance. There are no uplinks on the Sup-1 as the ASIC connections are dedicated to the line cards.
— The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor Engine 2 (Sup-2) is powered with one Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC (Figure 3). The Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASIC is capable of 6.4 Tbps (3.2 Tbps full duplex) switching capacity and up to 8 Bpps of forwarding performance. There are no uplinks on the Sup-2, as the ASIC connections are dedicated to the line cards.
Line cards
Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Switches offer the ability to mix and match a range of line cards to support different core and aggregation deployments
1、Fiber line cards:
— C9600X-LC-32CD: 30-port 100G/40G (QSFP28/QSFP+) and 2-port 400G/200G3/100G/40G (QSFPDD/QSFP56/QSFP28/QSFP+) line card
— C9600-LC-40YL4CD: 40-port 50G3/25G/10G/1G (SFP56/SFP28/SFP+/SFP), 2-port 200G3/100G/40G (QSFP56/QSFP28/QSFP+) and 2-port 400G/200G3/100G/40G (QSFP-DD/QSFP56/QSFP28/QSFP+) line card
— C9600-LC-24C: 24-port 100G/40G (QSFP28) line card
— C9600-LC-48YL: 48-port 50G3/25G/10G/1G SFP28/SFP+/SFP line card
— C9600-LC-48S: 48-port 1G SFP line card
2、Copper line card:
C9600-LC-48TX: 48-port 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M RJ-45 line card
Table 1. Cisco C9606R Series Switches Chassis Specifications
Cisco Catalyst 9606R | |
Supervisor slots | 2 (slots 3 and 4) |
Line card slots | 4 (slots 1 and 2 and slots 5 and 6) |
Port density | 8 x QSFP-DD (400G) 16 x QSFP56 (200G1) 128x QSFP28 (100G), QSFP+ (40G) 192x SFP56 (50G1), SFP28 (25G), SFP+ (10G), SFP (1G) 192x RJ-45 (10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M) |
Dimensions (HxWxD) | 13.95 x 17.4 x 16.1 in. (35.43 x 44.20 x 40.89 mm) (8RU) |
Bandwidth per LC slot | 6.4 Tbps (3.2 Tbps full duplex) |
Bandwidth between supervisor slots | 400G |
Power supplies | 4 (N+1 and Combined mode) |
Cooling | Side to side |
Table 1. Cisco C9606R Series Switches Ordering information
Product number | Description |
C9606R (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 6 Slot Chassis |
C9600X-SUP-2 (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600X Supervisor 2 Module |
C9600X-SUP-2/2 | Cisco Catalyst 9600X Redundant Supervisor 2 Module |
C9600-SUP-1 (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Supervisor 1 Module |
C9600-SUP-1/2 | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series Redundant Supervisor 1 Module |
C9600-LC-24C (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 24-Port 40GE/12-Port 100GE line card |
C9600-LC-48YL (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 25GE/10GE/1GE line card |
C9600-LC-48TX (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-port RJ45 Copper – 10GE/5GE/2.5GE/1GE/100M/10M line card |
C9600-LC-48S (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 48-Port 1GE line card |
C9600-LC-40YL4CD (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 40-Port 50/25/10GE and 2-Port 400GE, 2-port 200GE line card |
C9600X-LC-56YL4C (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600X 56-Port 50/25/10GE and 4-Port 100GE line card (SUP-2 only) |
C9600X-LC-32CD (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600X 30-port 100/40GE, 2-port 400/200/100GE line card (SUP-2 only) |
C9606-FAN (=) | 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 Software term licenses | Description |
C9600-DNA-A | C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage Software subscription, Term License |
C9600-DNA-A-3Y | C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage Software subscription, 3 Year License |
C9600-DNA-A-5Y | C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage Software subscription, 5 Year License |
C9600-DNA-A-7Y | C9600 Cisco DNA Advantage Software subscription, 7 Year License |
Cisco Catalyst Software term licenses | Description |
C9600-DNX-A-3Y | C9600 Cisco Catalyst Advantage Software subscription, 3Y License |
C9600-DNX-A-5Y | C9600 Cisco Catalyst Advantage Software subscription, 5Y License |
C9600-DNX-A-7Y | C9600 Cisco Catalyst Advantage Software subscription, 7Y License |
Power supplies | Description |
C9600-PWR-3KWAC (=) | Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series 3000W AC Power Supply |
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 |
