Cisco 8500 Series Secure Routers
Maximum throughput for
data center & service provider
Massive scalability with 3rd-generation Quantum Flow Processor, up to 190 Gbps forwarding, 100GE ports, and post-quantum cryptography for data center and colocation environments.
Purpose-built for data center and colocation.
The 8500 Series offers massive scalability and granular traffic optimization, ensuring your infrastructure remains fast, secure, and future ready.
3rd-gen Quantum Flow Processor
Purpose-built QFP ASIC delivers industry-leading throughput and scale for the most demanding routing workloads.
Up to 190 Gbps forwarding
Massive forwarding capacity with up to 63 Gbps IPsec and 21 Gbps SD-WAN for high-performance data flows.
100GE QSFP28 ports
Native 100GE and 40GE ports provide the bandwidth for data center interconnects and high-capacity WAN aggregation.
Post-quantum ready
PQC-ready encryption and hardware-accelerated security protect data center traffic against current and future threats.
8500 Series Secure Routers
Two 1 RU fixed platforms for data center edge and service provider WAN aggregation.
12 x 10GE
C8550-G2
1 RU fixed router with 12 x 10GE SFP+ ports for high-performance WAN aggregation
- •Up to 115 Gbps forwarding, 19 Gbps SD-WAN
- •Up to 48 Gbps IPsec
- •Up to 10,000 IPsec tunnels
- •8M IPv4/IPv6 routes
10GE + 40GE + 100GE
C8570-G2
1 RU fixed router with 12 x 10GE, 2 x 40GE, and 2 x 100GE for maximum capacity
- •Up to 190 Gbps forwarding, 21 Gbps SD-WAN
- •Up to 63 Gbps IPsec
- •Up to 10,000 IPsec tunnels
- •8M IPv4/IPv6 routes, 16M NAT sessions
Secure networking at data center scale.
Every 8500 Series router delivers massive throughput, hardware-accelerated security, and future-proof cryptography.
3rd-Gen QFP ASIC
Third-generation Quantum Flow Processor delivers industry-leading throughput and routing scale for data center workloads.
Hardware Security
Hardware-accelerated security with WAN MACsec on all built-in ports for line-rate encrypted transport.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
PQC-ready encryption protects high-value data center interconnects against emerging quantum threats.
Cisco IOS XE
Unified operating system with SD-WAN, programmability, and management via Catalyst Center or SD-WAN Manager.
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