Friday, September 14, 2018

Understanding the 9500 series switches/port types

I've been looking at the documentation on this page:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/data_sheet-c78-738978.html

For the switch, C9500-24Q, and it says it has 48x10 gig ports, or 96x10gig ports with a breakout cable.

I'd like to know, does this just use QSFP+ 's, and are these SFP's compatible with the regular ohm3, ohm4 fibre. If not, tell me what fibre you use. In the previous gen switches, you'd just buy 10G-BASE-SR's and 10G-BASE-LR's, and run regular ohm3 fibre between them. I'm trying to figure out whats changed.

Additionally, what is the breakout cable, and how does this expand this switch from 24x10gig ports to 48x10gig ports?



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