on 11-18-2020 07:29 AM
This event had place on Tuesday 17th, November 2020 at 10hrs PDT
The Catalyst 8500 Series Edge Platforms are built with the highly programmable, third-generation Cisco Quantum Flow Processor and designed for high-performance SD-WAN. These are purpose-built for accelerated SD-WAN services, multilayered security, cloud-native agility, and edge intelligence to accelerate your journey to the cloud.
You can download the slides of the presentation in PDF format here.
A:C8500 will be replacement to ASR1001-HX and ASR1002-HX and C8300 will replace ISR 4400 (4431 and 4451X) routers.
A:8500 series is an evolution of ASR 1001-HX and 1002-HX. Sumant will cover it in great detail.
A: Yes.Fully programmable ASIC, developed in house... this is the third generation of the architecture.
A:ETA (Encrypted Traffic Analytics) is supported. Thousand Eyes Integration is being looked into.
A:FPGA usually would have fewer transistors, hence wouldn't be able to accommodate what the QFP can deliver.
A:Have not heard of this terminology. Would have to defer to Sumant to answer once we get to Datapath section or Q&A at the end. Suspect this is alluding to QFP PPEs design of run-to-completion of the packet in Datapath.
A:Default memory for C8500 is 16GB, which is already good for 4M IPv4 or IPv6 routes.
A:No, there is a max up to 240G worth of ports that can be enabled at the same time. Sumant sharing on this slide.
A:Catalyst 8300 are next-gen ISR4400 and will support UC features. More info would be in the Catalyst 8300 deep dive session. We have more than 99% feature parity between C8300 and ISR4400s, except CME is not supported on C8300 and we are evaluating it based on customer use-cases. Besides that, vWAAS is not supported as Service container applications, and you need UCS-E module. ¬We do support UC on both Traditional and SD-WAN use-cases, except CME feature set.
A:Just standardizing the brand across Switching, Wireless and Routing which are the 3 PINs in our IBNG (Intent Based Networking Group) BU.
A:Yes, for HW Integrity and authenticity with SUDI¬.
A:Yes, the micro code blocks in the code data path gets retuned based on datapath ingress and egress configuration.
A:Cisco DNA subscription is mandatory at the time of C8500 purchase. With this subscription, there is a term-based license (DNA stack) that provides entitlement for DNA-Center management. No separate license needed.
A:Cisco DNA subscription for C8500 is added through L-DNA-C8500. This subscription provides entitlement for SD-WAN or non SD-WAN. If looking for a single SKU that has HW + subscription, then can configure from the bundles: C8500-12X-DNA and C8500-12X4QC-DNA¬ . The reason that Cisco DNA subscription is a separate SKU is because the licenses can also come from other offers like EA, MSLA, etc. But again, if looking for single SKU with HW+Subscription, then can use the bundles¬.
A:C8500 datasheet does have some mentions of the high level features for autonomous mode and controller mode: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/catalyst-8500-series-edge-platforms/datasheet-c78-744089.htm . In addition, Cisco Feature Navigator is in process of being updated¬ . Generally, C8500 will have feature parity with ASR1001-HX/ASR1002-HX. One call out is the Service Provider BNG (LAC/LNS) feature set, which is not supported on C8500.
A:Main reason is so that the factory will ship out the device in the correct mode. But yes, customer can change mode on their own.
A:Yes.
Does DNA Essentials include DMVPN support on the C8500-12X?
You talk about a feature parity with ASR1001-HX/ASR1002-HX. But the Service Provider BNG (LAC/LNS) feature set is not supported on C8500, so it is wrong to talk of "feature parity". It's not a secondary thing. It just creates confusion.
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