Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches

We use the Catalyst 9500 switch as the core of our network. We had info that connected all the places in the city. The 9500 connects with other 9200 and 9300 catalyst switches to complete the info via. As access switches, we use 2960 and now, some C1000 switches in each place.

The Catalyst 9500 allows us to use a Python module in the automation process, that module is very useful to automate everything. We are able to automate our network stacks using the Python module. We can deploy new switches without the need for my presence in the places, 9500 can help with the deploys, and make it so easy.

Great product that has helped us to move forward faster with our critical organization services and great transformation from network connectivity to secure Cloud functionalities and accelerated agility, innovations, advisory services, and analytics-driven insights. Highly available cloud services and IoT readiness greatly supports our network provisioning without any interruptions.

High availability of cloud functionalities and IoT readiness and great support without any interruptions help save time on critical business services and excellent scale and performance. It increases agility driven by analytic insights and helps make an informed business decision and understand easily and move forward faster with innovations and best practices.

We are currently using Cisco Catalyst 9500 series as either core or distribution switches within our company. For very large campuses, we are using them in Virtual StackWise for Layer 2 distribution switches, and for big sites we are using them also in Virtual StackWise mode but as core switches Layer 3

So far, even if we had [bought] the DNA license, we are not using automation or DNA insurance, unfortunately. I hope we can have some time in the near future to learn more [about] automation, analytics, and API

It [Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches] is implemented in our company to enhance bandwidth and can manage distribution points and can also take benefits to form other features as well. Plus, we can have high-speed interconnections and we can integrate it into DNA, and the most amazing part of it is automated deployment. They [switches] are well suited.

Our organization has benefitted greatly from its automation and with its virtualization; we have been able to monitor all the network-related problems that happened and once the diagnosis is complete, we are able to resolve it--and all this can be done with the assistance of its virtual network map. Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches automated deployment is time-saving for us. The end-to-end security ensures a secure and healthy environment. We can better manage the high bandwidth and we can look for issues in the network as well.

We use virtualization for almost all our servers and Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches gives a huge leap in the bandwidth: we did come 12 years ago from a 100/1000bmps infrastructure to a full 10gbps infrastructure. Improvements in terms of virtualization (vMotions) but also IOPS on server (needed by appliances) have been sustained by this great product.

We use them as our core distribution network layer 2/3 switches with [the] future vision of rolling out SD Access. We see it as the future proof platform which is highly scalable due to stacking capabilities. It is a perfect fit for our active data centres. [These] series provide you high stability.

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches do allow you to enable time-saving automation due to being SD Access capable, but you need to have this agenda on your table. It certainly allows you to scale due to its stacking capability and saves rack space as it is only 1 RU in height.

We are using Cisco Catalyst Switches 9500 series as a core switch for our Campus - it gives us the stability and resilience in building our campus network. Cisco 9500 series gives us the opportunity to double our network performance, throughput, and capabilities, with a great bandwidth ports up to 100G.

While Cisco Catalyst Switches 9500 series had designed to use it with automation and DNA solution, we still didn't apply the DNA on our campus as it also need other items to be replaced on our network. However to be ready is a good thing. That's why we acquire 9500 series to be ready when we go for the automation era and implement DNA.

These [Cisco Catalyst] 9500C-40X units are used for high speed link aggregation and for small scale data center core switching. The main problem these switches resolved was a small scale solution to the lack of 40Gbps+ stand alone interconnect networking.

The 9000 series of switches do require the purchase of DNA licensing, even though you and your organization do not currently or many not even intend to use it in the future. The realization of this certainly made for a pause when considering the product. If you are a larger organization that stands up racks of equipment monthly, these features will certainly be for you. But for small to mid sized organizations may see very little value added from this required expense.

The Cisco Catalyst 9500 are our distribution switches were all the access switches are connected. Since they are able to support a high density 40Gbps port are perfect for this function. That high density of port helps us a lot to reduce the footprint on our datacenter reducing the cost in cooling and energy.

One of the capabilities is the time saving automation since you can prepare a switch creating a template from other that are in production that help the reduce the time of new implementation and to scale up the core network.<br>

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches are used by my organization as the backbone or core of our enterprise network switching. We implemented these switches to replace the our Cisco 6509 Series Core Switches. The use of the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches allowed for increased bandwidth between our various distribution points across our organization while adding other additional benefits.

We have used Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches as the beginning of our processes to start automating processes within the networking area of our organization. While we have automated a lot of areas from other parts of infrastructure (servers, application deployments, etc.) the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches were our first stop into creating automation efforts within our networking stack. These efforts are helped by the ability to use Python module on the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches.

We use Cisco 9500 for our core infrastructure. They have been chosen with Cisco after consultation and advice, they are proper size and have enough performance for our needs. They are easy to configure and we have connected to them database servers and few other distribution switches and they work really well, so far no issues with software or hardware.

We do not use Cisco automation - DNA as we already use other product for automation. We have other vendor products so using this solution only on one part makes no sense. If you will be using automation from Cisco you have to be vendor lock which I do not recommend but it depends on company specific environment. Cisco build for years good switches and I hope they will stay this way.

The speed and versatility is really great--SFP ports for either copper or fiber, 1GB, 10GB, or 25GB. They are rock solid switches that run our core and run 24/7/365 for years without issue. The new user interface is great, and you can also use the old SSH CIOS commands too.

We use them as our new edge-core devices where we can do routing and it gives us the flexibility to have high speed interconnects to our edge closets. This solves the problems of not worrying to have a big chassis to implement and configure, and it has the opportunity to have a virtual chassis.

We have started to utilized the automation properties of Cisco DNA, and these switches can be deployed through DNA in the fabric. The first pair we used, we set up manually, and look to implement our future switches this way to make it easier for the future. We are still waiting for the benefits to appear.

We are using the Catalyst 9500 as core switches. We have them in a virtual stack and they have been working very well since migrating to them almost 3 years ago. We use them to connect our edges, data center, IOT networks as well as all of the other remote switches.

Doing on-the-go upgrades from the web GUI has been able to save me time and the ability to reboot each switch one at time is really another time-saver. I have also been gaining some insights with what is going on the network by adding it to Cisco DNA Center.

We use Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches for backbone and aggregate floor switches, stacked with StackWise Virtual, and we used 10G-40G ports.

I'm hoping to learn about automation.

We use Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches in a MAN MPLS loop for our customer MAN.

We didn't use automation.

They represent the core of our network, all the communication of our critical services crosses this equipment. The problem that it represents today is that administration becomes complex as we integrate more remote sites with the same technology. Administration via command line becomes an extensive and complex job.

We have been working with Cisco switches for a while now. Our experience with the 9500 series has always been good. They are very stable and powerful switches. All of our critical services are based on a 9500 and we’ve [only] had two breakdowns, this is a good product and fits perfectly for our standards.

At my organization Cisco Catalyst is used as an interconnecting devices for our complex security solutions. The 9500 Series has excellent performance stability benefits.
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Cisco Catalyst se encuentra interconectando una solución de seguridad compleja con excelentes prestaciones de estabilidad desempeño

Mi organizacion no ha sacado provecho de estas ventajas // My organization has not utilized any of these advantages.

We are using Cisco devices all over our network, and use the Cisco Catalyst 9500 series as our core switch. We use 2 devices with virtual stack to provide high availability and dual connection to each access switch to provide fully redundant connectivity. Also, we use these switches as a DHCP server, NTP server, VTP server to all network switches and users.

We Haven't used the automation feature in the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series yet, but hopefully, we will use it in the future and benefit from it.

We are currently using CAT 9500-40X and 9500-32C at our campus and branches. The switches are used at either distribution or core layer.

We haven't used any virtualization and programmability features of the CAT 9500 yet. However, we are planning to use programming/API to configure and manage the switches. Right now we are using DNA Center for automating the switches deployment.

I implemented a dual 9500 HA redundancy setup to replace the old 6500's that were being used as the core switches. Upon initial inspection, the Nexus 3k looked to be a better fit for our purpose, however, it came at a very steep price point. Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series Switches was a great alternative as it had all the software-defined network integration that was needed to start the Cisco DNA journey.

This was definitely the case after we had implemented DNA along with ISE in the environment. The integration and automation from a deployment and security aspect have truly been a time-saving benefit. The level of insight that it gives is an amazing feature that not only saves time on a day to day operational perspective but also a compliance point.

We decided to implement them to manage our throughput and security needs. The Cat9K family allows us to better enforce our policies with software-defined segmentation approach. We were also interested in getting more information about encrypted traffic without adding inline appliances that reduce the scalability and increase costs. We're planning to integrate it with our Stealthwatch installation that already leverages the netflow traffic generated by the latest switching and routing Cisco family.

The automation of the catalysts has allowed us to standardize the procedures and scripts developed over the years by our staff. In this way we have sped up the procedures from hours to minutes, allowing to concentrate the OpEx on other more innovative activities. Standardization has also made it possible to spread these practices to new recruits, untying unofficial scripts from senior staff.