Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches represent the upcoming iteration of enterprise-grade core and aggregation layer switches. The Cisco Catalyst C9500-16X-E Switch provides 16 x 10/100/1000 PoE+ ports, a 16 x 10G Gigabit uplink interface, and a NW Ess. license. The Cisco Catalyst C9500-16X-E has complete programmability and serviceability. The Cisco C9500-16X-E Switch is powered by an x86 CPU, 16 GB of DRAM, 16 GB of flash memory, 480 Gbps of switching capacity, and a 360 Mpps forwarding rate, 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.