Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series

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.

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.

Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series