The Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series is a modular Catalyst 9000 switch family for the campus core, with one chassis, two supervisor engines and a set of line cards. The C9606R chassis has six slots. Slots 3 and 4 are the supervisor engine slots and the other four take line cards. The supervisors are the C9600-SUP-1 and the C9600X-SUP-2, and two of them give 1+1 redundancy with SSO, NSF and ISSU. Bandwidth per line-card slot reaches 6.4 Tbps with the C9600X-SUP-2 and 2.4 Tbps with the C9600-SUP-1.
Line cards are the C9600-LC-24C with 24 ports at 40G or 12 ports at 100G, the C9600-LC-48YL, the C9600-LC-48TX with RJ45 copper ports, the C9600-LC-48S with 48 ports at 1G, the C9600-LC-40YL4CD, and the C9600X-LC-56YL4C and C9600X-LC-32CD. The C9600-LC-48S works only with the C9600-SUP-1, and the two C9600X line cards work only with the C9600X-SUP-2. The C9600X-LC-32CD needs Cisco IOS XE 17.9.1 and the C9600X-LC-56YL4C needs 17.13.1.
The chassis has four power supply bays and takes the C9600-PWR-3KWAC at 3000 W AC, the C9600-PWR-2KWAC at 2000 W AC and the C9600-PWR-2KWDC at 2000 W DC. A chassis needs at least two supplies, and a fully loaded chassis on 110 V input needs three. Supplies run in Combined mode by default or in N+1 redundant mode, and in either mode they need equal wattage. A single field-replaceable fan tray, the C9606-FAN, holds nine fans, and airflow runs side to side.
Licensing is Network Advantage, the single perpetual tier, with Cisco DNA Advantage and Cisco Catalyst Advantage subscriptions in 3, 5 or 7 year terms, managed through Cisco Smart Licensing. The Cisco 9400 and Cisco 9500 pages cover other Catalyst 9000 switches, the Cisco 6509 page covers the Catalyst 6500 chassis, and the full range is under networking. Switches are also in the Cisco switch category.
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Cisco 9600 parts we supply
Catalyst 9600 chassis (1)
- C9606R: 6 slot chassis, 4 line card slots and 2 supervisor engine slots
Supervisor engines (4)
- C9600-SUP-1: Supervisor 1 module
- C9600-SUP-1/2: Redundant Supervisor 1 module
- C9600X-SUP-2: Supervisor 2 module
- C9600X-SUP-2/2: Redundant Supervisor 2 module
Line cards (7)
- C9600-LC-24C: 24-port 40G or 12-port 100G line card
- C9600-LC-48YL: 48-port line card
- C9600-LC-48TX: 48-port RJ45 copper line card, 10M to 10G
- C9600X-LC-32CD: Combo line card, 30 ports 100G and 40G QSFP28, 2 ports 400G QSFP-DD, C9600X-SUP-2 only
- C9600-LC-48S: 48-port 1G line card, C9600-SUP-1 only
- C9600-LC-40YL4CD: Combo line card, 40 ports and 4 uplink ports
- C9600X-LC-56YL4C: Combo line card, 56 ports 50G, 25G and 10G SFP56 and 4 ports 100G and 40G QSFP28, C9600X-SUP-2 only
Power supplies, fan tray and blanks (6)
- C9600-PWR-2KWAC: 2000 W AC power supply
- C9600-PWR-3KWAC: 3000 W AC power supply
- C9600-PWR-2KWDC: 2000 W DC power supply
- C9606-FAN: Fan tray with nine fans
- C9606-SLOT-BLANK: Blank for a chassis module slot
- C9606-PWR-BLANK: Blank for a chassis power supply slot
Storage, cables and mounting kits (10)
- C9K-F2-SSD-240GB: 240 GB SSD storage
- C9K-F2-SSD-480GB: 480 GB SSD storage
- C9K-F2-SSD-960GB: 960 GB SSD storage
- CAB-C19-CBN: Cabinet jumper power cord, 16A 250VAC, for the C9600-PWR-3KWAC
- CAB-CONSOLE-USB: Console cable, 6 ft, USB Type A and mini-B
- CAB-CONSOLE-RJ45: Console cable, 6 ft, RJ45 and DB9F
- C9606-RACK-KIT=: Rack mount kit, 6 slot chassis
- C9606-ACC-KIT=: Accessory kit, 6 slot chassis
- C9606-SHELF-KIT=: Shelf install kit, 6 slot chassis
- C9606-FB-23-KIT=: Front to back kit, 6 slot chassis
Software licenses (7)
- C9600-DNA-A: Cisco DNA Advantage term license
- C9600-DNA-A-3Y: Cisco DNA Advantage 3 year license
- C9600-DNA-A-5Y: Cisco DNA Advantage 5 year license
- C9600-DNA-A-7Y: Cisco DNA Advantage 7 year license
- C9600-DNX-A-3Y: Cisco Catalyst Advantage 3 year subscription
- C9600-DNX-A-5Y: Cisco Catalyst Advantage 5 year subscription
- C9600-DNX-A-7Y: Cisco Catalyst Advantage 7 year subscription