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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	Yes^2,5
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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