Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches represent the upcoming iteration of enterprise-grade core and aggregation layer switches. The Cisco Catalyst C9500-24X-A Switch provides 24 x 10/100/1000 PoE+ ports, a 16 x 10G Gigabit uplink interface, an 8 x 10GE network module, and a NW Ess. license. The Cisco Catalyst C9500-24X-A has complete programmability and serviceability. The Cisco C9500-24X-A Switch is powered by an x86 CPU, 16 GB of DRAM, and 16 GB of flash memory, along with 1 rack unit (RU), which makes it Cisco’s primary purpose-built fixed-core and aggregation enterprise switching solution designed to cater to the requirements of security, IoT, and cloud computing environments.