Data Sheet
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Feature Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
Layer 3 Forwarding
Performance
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 1A Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC2): 15 mpps
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Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2 MSFC2: up to 210 mpps
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Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 MSFC2a: 15 mpps
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Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 720: up to 400 mpps
Operating System
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Cisco Catalyst OS
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Cisco IOS Software
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Hybrid configuration
Redundant Supervisor
Engines
Yes, with stateful failover
Redundant
Components
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Power supplies (1+1)
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Switch fabric (1+1)
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Replaceable clock
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Replaceable fan tray
High-Availability
Features
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Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
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Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
●
Multimodule EtherChannel technology
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Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
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Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
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Per-VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree
●
Rapid convergence Layer 3 protocols
Advanced Services
Modules
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Content services gateway
●
CSM
●
Firewall module
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IDS module
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IP Security (IPSec) VPN module
●
Network analysis module
●
Persistent storage device
●
SSL module
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Wireless LAN services module
Table 2. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Port Density Information, WAN Modules and Interfaces
Maximum System Port
Densities (Including
Supervisor Engine Ports)
Catalyst
6503
Catalyst
6503-E
Catalyst
6506 and
6506-E*
Catalyst
6509 and
6509-E*
Catalyst
6509-NEB
and 6509-
NEB-A
Catalyst
6513
10 Gigabit Ethernet (XENPAK) 2 8 20 32 32 20
Gigabit Ethernet (Small Form-
Factor Pluggable [SFP] Optics)
8 98 242 386 384 410
Gigabit Ethernet (gigabit
Interface Converter [GBIC])
34 34 82 130 130 194
10/100/1000 Ethernet 97 97 241 385 385 577
10/100 Fast Ethernet 192 192 480 768 768 1152
100BASE-FX 96 96 240 384 384 576
FlexWAN (DS-0 to OC-3) 2 modules
with 4 port
adapters
2 modules
with 4 port
adapters
5 modules
with 10 port
adapters
8 modules
with 16 port
adapters
8 modules
with 16 port
adapters
12 modules
with 24 port
adapters
Integrated WAN Modules
OC-3 POS ports 16 16 40 64 64 96
OC-12 POS ports 8 8 20 32 32 48
OC-12 ATM ports 4 4 10 16 16 24
OC-48 POS/Dynamic Packet
Transport (DPT) Ports
4 POS
2 DPT
4 POS
2 DPT
10 POS
5 DPT
16 POS
8 DPT
16 POS
8 DPT
24 POS
12 DPT
PSTN Interfaces
Digital T1/E1 Trunk Ports 36 36 90 144 144 216
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