Description
The Cisco Catalyst 8500-20X6C Edge Platform is a premier high-performance aggregation router engineered to accelerate cloud adoption and transform the WAN edge for modern enterprises. As a flagship model in the Catalyst 8500 Series, this platform delivers a secure, agile, and cloud-scale experience, providing a robust foundation for intent-based networking and Service Provider aggregation strategies.
Featuring an impressive high-density port configuration, the 8500-20X6C offers exceptional connectivity flexibility with twenty 1/10 Gigabit SFP+ ports (Bay 1) and six high-speed 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 ports (Bay 0). This massive bandwidth capacity enables high-speed aggregation to the network core and seamless connectivity for data center interconnects, housed within a robust 3U rack-mountable chassis.
The platform’s performance is driven by a sophisticated hardware architecture. It is powered by an 8-core Control Plane Processor and four dedicated QuantumFlow Processor (QFP) ASICs designed for massive scale. This architecture delivers an IPv4 transfer rate of 500 Gbps and supports a substantial 400 Gbps IPsec throughput, enabled by dedicated crypto engines integrated directly into each of the four QFP ASICs. Running on the Cisco IOS XE operating system, it provides advanced Layer 3 routing capabilities alongside large-scale SD-WAN tunnel support supported by substantial SDRAM and sTCAM resources. The platform integrates seamlessly with Cisco’s secure architecture, featuring hardware-anchored security with SUDI, AES-256 encryption, and advanced traffic visibility via Flexible NetFlow.
Engineered for carrier-class reliability and operational efficiency, the Cisco Catalyst 8500-20X6C is equipped with redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and 480 GB of integrated SSD storage. It stands as the strategic solution for organizations requiring uncompromising performance, hardware-accelerated cryptography, and scale at the network edge.
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