C9606R
Cisco Catalyst 9606R Switch
Cisco Catalyst 9600
Positioning
Inherited from the Catalyst 9600 family — positioning is family-scoped in the graph
Campus core and aggregation — modular, hot-swap supervisors and line cards, 40/100/400G uplinks, 25.6 Tbps switching capacity
Price band: Premium
Specifications sourced from Cisco's published datasheets and product documentation.
Identity
What it is and where it sits in the range
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product family
- Catalyst 9600
- Form factor
- modular
- Rack units
- 8
- Launch date
- 2017–2022
- Supported OS
- IOS-XE
Alternatives
Products that do the same job: one class up, the same class, or one class down. Same vendor first.
| Platform | Ports | Capacity | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|
| C9404R Cisco · Catalyst 9400 | Capacity depends on the supervisor and fabric modules fitted | Mid-range to Premium |
Other vendors' modular chassis are positioned for a different role, so none is compared.
Power
PoE, supplies and redundancy
- PoE supported
- No
- PSU slots
- 4
- PSU redundancy modes
- n+1, combined, no_redundancy
- Fan slots
- 1
Scale and performance
Table sizes, latency and stacking limits
- Stacking supported
- No
Licence tiers
Tiers defined for this family
Advantage
Defined for the Catalyst 9600 family. SKUit selects the tier and term matching the features you choose when it builds the BOM.
Parts and modules
Published parts that fit this platform, each with its own page
- Line cards (7)
- Supervisors (2)
- Network modules (3)
- Power supplies (4)
- Fan trays (1)
- Rack-mount kits (4)
About this data
Where the specifications on this page come from
Where does the C9606R data come from?
The C9606R specifications on this page are sourced from Cisco's published datasheets and product documentation. SKUit extracts and normalises those values into its product catalog, the same data its BOM builder uses. This page summarises them; it is not Cisco's datasheet, and the original documents are published by Cisco.
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