Cisco Catalyst C8500-12X4QC

C8500-12X4QC platform allows for a maximum of 240GE ports to be enabled simultaneously. It offers:
●      12x 1/10GE ports (can increase to 24x 1/10GE if using 4x10GE breakout from QSFP 40G ports when not in SD-WAN mode)
●      2x 40GE ports
●      2x 40/100GE ports

Enhanced 1RU form factor C8500-12X4QC
Up to 5X higher IPsec throughput than 2nd Gen QFP devices
Intel x86 CPU with 16 GB memory default (up to 64 GB memory) for high-speed control plane processes
Options for 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE ports
All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms have 16 GB default DRAM and can be upgraded to 32 GB and 64 GB for higher scale. C8500-20X6C has 64GB of DRAM by default (Maximum possible)
Default 32-GB eUSB for storage with optional 480-GB SSD upgrade. C8500-20X6C has 480-GB-SSD as default (Maximum available)

●  High-efficiency dual power supplies by default for power supply redundancy
●  N+1 redundancy High-efficiency power supplies by default for power supply redundancy on the C8500-20X6C
●  All Catalyst 8500 Edge Platforms support software redundancy with 2 Cisco IOS processes running on a single device (IOS XE routing mode)