Cisco C9550-96L4D | C9550 96-Port 50G Switch, 6.4 Tbps, 4x 400G QSFP-DD

Q: What network roles is the C9550-96L4D designed for?
A: The C9550-96L4D is designed for edge, core, and distribution layers in very large enterprise campus networks. It can serve as a fabric border, aggregation point for large fabric networks, or as a campus edge or gateway for deployments requiring high IPv4 or IPv6 route scale.

Q: What is the primary use case for this switch?
A: The C9550-96L4D serves as a high-density consolidation point for multiple 50/25/10/1G SFP access switches, aggregating traffic into a 400/100/40G QSFP high-bandwidth backbone. It is ideal for large campus core and aggregation deployments.

Q: What advanced security features does this switch support?
A: The C9550-96L4D includes integrated security capabilities such as continuous zero-trust security, inline threat protection with Cisco Live Protect, hardware-rooted trust, and hardware support for post-quantum cryptography algorithms and encryption to protect against future quantum computing threats.

Q: Can this switch host applications directly?
A: Yes, the C9550-96L4D features an x86 CPU with 8 cores, 32 GB DDR5 memory, and up to 960 GB of SATA SSD local storage for container-based application hosting. This allows customers to run network applications and telemetry tools directly on the switch platform.

Q: What Layer 2 and Layer 3 features are supported?
A: The C9550 Series running Cisco IOS XE supports advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding capabilities, increased forwarding and access control scale, hardware-based encryption, segmentation, scalable ACLs, NetFlow, and high-performance routing for modern enterprise campus deployments.