Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms

The Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms are high-performance cloud edge platforms designed for accelerated services, multi-layer security, cloud-native agility, and edge intelligence to accelerate your journey to cloud.

Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platform Benefits

• ● Accelerated services with Cisco Catalyst Software-Defined WAN
• ● Application optimization
• ● Multi-layer security
• ● Application visibility
• ● Cloud-native agility with programmable software architecture
• ● 5G-ready
• ● Compact form factor

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

• ● 20x 1/10GE ports
• ● 6x 40/100GE ports

The C8500-12X4QC platform 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 offers 12x 1/10GE ports.

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