Catalyst 9600 line cards 48-port 10G multigigabit copper

48-port 50¹/25GE/10GE/1GE line card

Line card use cases:

• C9600-LC-48YL line card is specifically designed for high port-density Campus Core or Distribution designs, with majority SFP optics.
• Able to support 48 line-rate SFP56 ports for high-density high-speed upstream or downstream connections.
• This line card can also operate with both Supervisor Engine 2 or Supervisor Engine 1, providing increased flexibility and reusability.

Line card highlights:

• Paired with C9600-SUP-1 (1.2 Tbps full-duplex bandwidth), this line card provides up to 48 nonblocking ports of 25/10/1GE².
• Paired with C9600X-SUP-2 (3.2 Tbps full-duplex bandwidth), this line card provides up to 48 nonblocking ports of 50¹/25/10/1GE².
• 50¹, 25, 10, and 1 GE2 SFP28, SFP+ ports.
• Advanced Encryption Standard 256 (AES-256) support with the powerful MACsec-256 encryption algorithm is available on the UADP ASIC³.