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Model	Catalyst 9600 SUP-1	Catalyst 9600X SUP-2
Resiliency and High Availability
Software Maintenance Upgrade (SMU)	Yes	Yes
Cisco StackWise Virtual	Yes	Yes
Cisco StackWise Virtual (QuadSup RPR)	Yes	No²
Stateful Switchover (SSO)	Yes (2 SUP, SVL)	Yes (2 SUP, SVL)
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)	Yes (2 SUP, SVL)	Yes (2 SUP, SVL)
Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR)	Yes	Yes
MKA High Availability	Yes	Yes¹
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	Yes⁴
Object-Group ACLs (IPv4/IPv6)	Yes	Yes³
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
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) Source-Specific Mode (PIM-SSM)	Yes	Yes
Bidirectional PIM (BIDIR-PIM)	Yes	No²
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	No²
MPLS over GRE	Yes	No²
MPLS Traffic-Engineering (MPLS-TE)	Yes	Yes
BGP Ethernet VPN (EVPN) VXLAN
Fabric Spine, Leaf and Border Support	Yes	Yes
L2/L3 Virtual Network Interface (VNI)	Yes	Yes
Distributed Anycast Gateway (Symmetric IRB)	Yes	Yes
Centralized Gateway (Asymmetric IRB)	Yes	No²
ESI Multi-Home Support	Yes	No²
Tenant Routed Multicast (IPv4/IPv6)	Yes	Yes
L3 Border Handoff: Multi-VRF, MPLS, L3VPN	Yes	Yes
L2 Border Handoff: VPLS, L2VPN	Yes	No²
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	No	No
Flexible NetFlow (FNF)
FNF IPv4 flow records	Yes	Yes¹ (software)
FNF IPv6 flow records	Yes	Yes¹ (software)
FNF sampler	Yes	Yes¹
FNF data export	Yes	Yes¹
NetFlow version 9 (NFv9) export	Yes	Yes¹
IPFIX export	Yes	Yes¹
Programmability
Simplified Campus Automation	Yes	Yes
NETCONF	Yes	Yes
RESTCONF	Yes	Yes
gNMI/gNOI	Yes	Yes
YANG models	Yes	Yes
ZTP/PnP	Yes	Yes
Smart Operations
Bluetooth Wireless UI	Yes	Yes
RFID tags	Yes	Yes
Blue beacon	Yes	Yes
Out-of-Band Management	Yes	Yes

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