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C9610 Series

Cisco Smart Switches

Introducing Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches—the next-generation hardware designed to redefine campus switching with high port density and exceptional bandwidth capabilities. Designed to power the AI Enterprise, these switches support 25G and 100G uplinks and are ready for 400G, future-proofing your workplace.

With a security-first architecture and modular scalability, these switches adapt as your business grows. The Cisco C9610 Series delivers robust performance, scale, and security without compromise. Elevate your network with Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches, where innovation meets the demands of today and tomorrow. They are Hypershield-ready for advanced threat mitigation, support post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms and encryption to guard against future attacks using quantum computers, and are hardware-ready to offer protection against zero-day attacks on software vulnerabilities using Cisco Live Protect.

More than just the next generation of enterprise-grade switches, Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches simplify IT operations by unifying hardware, software, and support, regardless of how you choose to manage your network.

  • Unified hardware - Common hardware designed to support any management mode
  • Unified licensing - Common licensing that unlocks advanced features and capabilities across platforms
  • Unified support - Consistent and reliable product support for both hardware and software included with the unified licenses

Product Highlights

  • Modular Versatility
  • Simplified Management
  • High Availability and Resiliency
  • Performance and Scalability
  • Advanced Security
  • Automation and Analytics

Simplified Campus Automation

Simplified campus automation is designed to optimize the discovery and configuration of devices in your network with a more streamlined, simple, and easy-to-use automation tool. With features such as simplified discovery, IT can discover devices within the network within just a few steps. Also available is a GUI that provides a better, simplified view of switch configurations and software details on a port-by-port basis.


Automated Device Provisioning

Automated device provisioning is the ability to automate the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files on Cisco C9000 Smart Switches and Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches when they are being deployed in the network for the first time. Cisco provides streamlined solutions such as Plug and Play and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) that support a simplified and automated deployment.


API-Driven Configuration

API-driven configuration is available with modern network switches such as Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches. It supports a wide range of automation features and provides robust open APIs over NETCONF and RESTCONF using YANG data models for external tools, both off the shelf and custom built, to automatically provision network resources.


Granular Visibility

Granular visibility enables model-driven telemetry to stream data from a switch to a destination. The data to be streamed is identified through subscription to a data set in a YANG model. The subscribed data set is streamed to the destination at specified intervals. Additionally, Cisco IOS XE enables the push model. It provides near-real-time monitoring of the network, leading to quick detection and rectification of failures. 


Seamless Software Upgrades and Patching

Seamless ISSU software upgrades and SMU patching supports OS resilience. On Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches, Cisco IOS XE supports hot patching without reboot, which provides fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities between regular maintenance releases. This support lets you add patches without having to wait for the next maintenance release.


Trustworthy Solutions Built with Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies

Trustworthy solutions built with Cisco Trust Anchor module (TAm) technologies provide a highly secure foundation for Cisco products. With Cisco C9610 Series Smart Switches, these technologies enable hardware and software authenticity assurance for supply-chain trust and strong mitigation against man-in-the-middle attacks that compromise software and firmware. Trust Anchor capabilities include image signing, Secure Boot, and Cisco Trust Anchor module.

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Interfaces
  • Modular 10-slot chassis architecture.
  • Supports up to:
    • 448 native 10G, 25G, or 50G SFP56 ports.
    • 512 SFP ports using QSFP-to-SFP breakout cables.
    • 256 native 40G or 100G QSFP28 ports.
    • 16 native 400G QSFP-DD ports.
  • Supports Cisco C9610 and compatible Catalyst 9600 Series line cards.
  • Dual supervisor module slots for high availability and redundancy.
Management
  • Cisco IOS XE operating system.
  • Unified hardware, software, licensing, and support model.
  • Full-stack programmability from ASIC to operating system.
  • Support for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid management deployments.
  • Container-based application hosting with support for up to 960 GB SSD storage.
  • Streaming telemetry and advanced operational visibility.
  • Flexible NetFlow support for traffic monitoring and analytics.
Remote Diagnostics
  • Streaming telemetry for operational monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Hardware telemetry and platform health monitoring.
  • Embedded diagnostics and system monitoring through Cisco IOS XE.
  • Container-based application hosting for analytics and operational tools.
  • Published MTBF statistics for chassis, fan trays, power supplies, and system components.
Staking
  • Cisco StackWise Virtual technology.
  • Enables two chassis to operate as a single logical switch.
  • Stateful Switchover (SSO) support.
  • In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) support.
  • Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR).
  • Software hot patching support.
  • High-availability architecture designed for resilient campus core and distribution deployments.
Layer 3
  • Advanced Layer 3 routing capabilities through Cisco IOS XE.
  • Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 operation.
  • Hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding.
  • Routing scale support:
    • Up to 1 million routes with Supervisor 3.
    • Up to 2 million routes with Supervisor 3XL.
  • Flexible hardware forwarding table allocation for IPv4, IPv6, multicast, ACL, and QoS resources.
  • High-scale campus core, distribution, and gateway routing support.
Power
  • Supports AC and DC power supplies.
  • Available power supply options:
    • 3000W AC
    • 2000W AC
    • 2000W DC
  • Input voltage:
    • AC: 90–264 VAC, 47–63 Hz
    • DC: -40V to -72VDC
  • High-efficiency power supplies.
  • N+1 redundancy support.
  • N+N redundancy support.
  • Hot-swappable power supplies.
  • Mixed AC and DC operation supported, subject to deployment requirements.
Ethernet Switching Capabilities
  • Layer 2 switching with support for up to 128,000 MAC addresses.
  • Supports up to 4,094 VLANs.
  • Supports up to 4,000 Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs).
  • Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST) and Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) support.
  • Jumbo frame support up to 9,216 bytes.
  • Hardware-based forwarding using Cisco Silicon One ASIC technology.
  • Wire-speed IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding.
  • High-performance switching for campus core and aggregation deployments.
Security
  • Security-first platform architecture.
  • Hardware-based encryption capabilities.
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness.
  • Cisco Live Protect support for rapid vulnerability mitigation.
  • Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA).
  • Hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6 Access Control Lists (ACLs).
  • Secure Boot and Trustworthy Solutions architecture.
  • Integrated protection for devices, users, applications, and data.
Power over Ethernet (no - PoE)
  • No native PoE support within the C9610 chassis.
  • Designed primarily for campus core, aggregation, and distribution deployments.
  • PoE capabilities are dependent on supported Catalyst 9600 Series line cards rather than the chassis platform itself.
Performance
  • System switching capacity of up to 51.2 Tbps.
  • Up to 6.4 Tbps of bandwidth per slot.
  • Forwarding performance of up to 15.6 billion packets per second (Bpps).
  • Cisco Silicon One E100 or K100 ASIC architecture, depending on supervisor model.
  • Q200L fabric ASIC delivering up to 25.6 Tbps of switching fabric capacity.
  • Up to 8 GB HBM2E packet buffer memory per K100 ASIC on Supervisor 3XL.
  • 32 GB DRAM.
  • Up to 960 GB SSD storage for application hosting.
Mounting
  • 18RU modular rack-mount chassis.
  • Dimensions:
    • Height: 79.93 cm
    • Width: 44.20 cm
    • Depth: 66.29 cm
  • Front-access line card and supervisor module slots.
  • Rear-access power supplies and fan assemblies.
  • Supports redundant supervisors, power supplies, and cooling modules.
Environment
  • Operating temperature:
    • -5°C to 45°C at sea level.
    • -5°C to 40°C up to 1.83 km altitude.
  • Storage temperature:
    • -40°C to 75°C.
  • Humidity:
    • 10%–95% non-condensing.
  • Operating altitude:
    • Up to 3,000 m.
  • Four redundant fan trays.
  • High-availability cooling architecture. 
Regulatory
  • Designed to meet applicable global safety, EMC, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
  • Product-specific certifications and approvals are available through Cisco compliance documentation.
  • Suitable for enterprise campus, aggregation, and core deployments worldwide.
Warranty
  • Cisco Limited Lifetime Warranty (LLW).
  • Warranty valid for as long as the original customer owns the product.
  • Warranty support continues for up to 5 years after product discontinuation.


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