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Description
Feature Catalyst 9500 Catalyst 9500X
Resiliency and High Availability
Software Maintenance Upgrade (SMU) Yes Yes
Cisco StackWise Virtual Yes Yes3
Stateful Switchover (SSO) Yes (SVL) Yes (SVL)3
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) Yes (SVL) Yes (SVL)3
Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR) Yes Yes
MKA High Availability Yes No1
Enterprise Security
Trustworthy Solutions Yes Yes
Image Signing Yes Yes
Secure Boot Yes Yes
Cisco Trust Anchor Module Yes Yes
MACsec Encryption (256-bit AES-GCM) Yes Yes
Cisco WAN MACsec (256-bit AES-GCM) No Yes2,5
Object-Group ACLs (IPv4/IPv6) Yes Yes4
Enterprise QoS
Modular QoS CLI (MQC) Yes Yes
Strict Priority Queuing Yes Yes
Class/Color-aware Queuing Yes (WFQ) Yes (VoQ)
Policing/Metering Yes Yes
Shaping/Bandwidth Yes Yes
Hierarchical QoS Yes (2-level) Yes (2-level)
IP Routing
Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIPv2), and next generation [RIPng] Yes Yes
Open Shortest Path First version 2 (OSPFv2), and OSPFv3 Yes Yes
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and EIGRPv6 Yes Yes
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System Version 4 (IS-ISv4) Yes Yes
Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 (BGPv4), and BGPv6 Yes Yes
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM) Yes Yes
PIM Source-Specific Mode (PIM-SSM) Yes Yes
Bidirectional PIM (PIM-BIDIR) Yes No1
IPv6 routing Yes Yes
L3 Routed Sub-Interfaces Yes Yes
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
MPLS L3 VPN Yes Yes
Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) Yes Yes
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Yes No1
MPLS over GRE Yes No1
MPLS Traffic-Engineering (MPLS-TE) Yes Yes
BGP Ethernet VPN (EVPN) VXLAN
Fabric Spine, Leaf and Border Support Yes Yes3
L2/L3 Virtual Network Interface (VNI) Yes Yes3
Distributed Anycast Gateway (Symmetric IRB) Yes Yes3
Centralized Gateway (Asymmetric IRB) Yes No
ESI Multi-Home Support Yes No
Tenant Routed Multicast (IPv4/IPv6) Yes Yes3
L3 Border Handoff: Multi-VRF, MPLS L3VPN Yes Yes3
L2 Border Handoff: VPLS, EoMPLS L2VPN Yes No1
Software-Defined Access (SD-Access)
Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) Yes Yes
L2 Virtual Network Interface (VNI) Yes Yes
L3 Virtual Network Interface (VNI) Yes Yes
SDA Control-Plane Yes Yes
SDA Border Yes Yes
SDA Layer 2 Border Yes No
SDA Edge Yes No
Flexible NetFlow (FNF)
FNF IPv4 flow records Yes Yes2 (software)
FNF IPv6 flow records Yes Yes2 (software)
FNF sampler Yes Yes2
FNF data export Yes Yes2
NetFlow version 9 (NFv9) export Yes Yes2
IPFIX export Yes Yes2
Programmability
NETCONF Yes Yes
RESTCONF Yes Yes
gNMI/gNOI Yes Yes
YANG Config models Yes Yes
YANG Oper models Yes Yes
ZTP/PnP Yes Yes
Smart Operations
Bluetooth Ready Yes Yes2
RFID Tags Yes Yes
Blue Beacon Yes Yes
Out of Band Device Mgmt Yes (RJ45 and USB-mini type B) Yes (RJ-45 and USB-C)
Meraki Cloud Monitoring Yes No

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