Overview - Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Overview

The Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms are well suited for medium-sized and large enterprise branch
offices for high WAN IPSec performance with integrated SD-WAN services.
The Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms target these use cases:
• Enterprise Branch office, Managed Service Provide CPE, Internet Gateway for DIA, SASE cloud platform
with SD-WAN
• Next-generation of Software Defined (SD) Branch routing platforms
The Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms significantly increases services performance, router throughput,
and router scale at lower costs.
This document covers only hardware installation specific details for the following models:
• C8500-12X4QC
• C8500-12X
For more information on the features and specifications of Cisco 8500 Series Catalyst Edge Platform, refer
the Cisco 8500 Series Catalyst Edge Platform datasheet
• Hardware Features, on page 2
• Front and Rear View Of Cisco C8500-12X4QC , on page 2
• Front and Rear View of Cisco C8500-12X , on page 4
• Bay Configuration - C8500-12X4QC, on page 5
• Bay Configuration - C8500-12X4, on page 5
• AC Power Supply, on page 6
• DC Power Supply, on page 6
• Power Supply LEDs, on page 7
• Power Supply Fans, on page 8
• Serial Number and PID/VID Label Location, on page 8
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