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CISCO CATALYST 6500 SERIES SWITCH

The Catalyst 6500 Series sets the new standard for IP communications and application delivery in enterprise campus and service provider networks by maximizinguser productivity and enhancing operational control while providing unprecedented investment protection. As Cisco’s premier intelligent multilayer

modular switch, the Catalyst end-to-end, from the wiring closet to the core, to the data center, to the WAN edge.

Idealfor enterprises and serviceproviders seeking to reduce theirtotal cost of ownership, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series delivers scalable performance and port density across a range of chassis conﬁgurations and LAN/WAN/MAN interfaces. Available in 3-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis, Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches feature an unparalleled range of integrated services modules, including multigigabitnetwork security,contentswitching, telephony,and network analysis modules.

6500 Series delivers secure, converged services,

By taking advantage of a forward-thinking architecture that uses a common set of modules and operating system software across all Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series chassis, the Catalyst 6500 Series delivers a high level of operational consistency that optimizes IT infrastructure usage and enhances return on investment. From 48-port to 576-port 10/100/1000 or 1152port 10/100 Ethernet wiring closets to hundreds-of-Mpps network cores supporting up to 192 1-Gbps or 32 10-Gbps trunks, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series provides an optimal platform that maximizes network uptime with stateful failover capability between redundant routing and forwarding engines.

With numerous industry-ﬁrsts and industry-leading features to its credit, the Catalyst 6500 Seriessupports three generations of modulesthat continue to demonstrate the Catalyst6500 value and Cisco’scommitmentto innovation. Cisco’snewgeneration of Catalyst 6500 Series modules and Supervisor Engine 720 incorporate 11 new Cisco-developed application speciﬁc integrated circuits (ASICs)—extending Cisco’s leadership in networking while providing unparalleled investment protection.

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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Chassis

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CISCO CATALYST 6500 SERIES BENEFITS

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series provides market-leading services, performance, port densities, and availability with investment protection for enterprise and service provider markets. These include:

• Maximum network uptime—With platform, power supply, supervisor engine, switch fabric, and integrated network services redundancy provides one- to three-second stateful failover and delivers application and services continuity in a converged network environment, minimizing disruption of mission-critical data and services

• Comprehensive network security—Integrates proven, multigigabit Cisco security solutions, including intrusion detection, ﬁrewall, VPN, and SSL into existing networks

• Scalable performance—Provides up to 400 Mpps performance with distributed forwarding architecture

• Forward-Thinking architecture with investment protection—Supports three generations of interchangeable, hot-swappable modules in the same chassis, optimizing IT infrastructure usage, maximizing return on investment, and reducing total cost of ownership

• Operational consistency—Features 3-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis conﬁgurations sharing a common set of modules, Cisco IOS Software, Cisco Catalyst Operating System Software, and network management tools that can be deployed anywhere in the network

• Unparalleled services integration and ﬂexibility—Integrates advanced services such as security, wireless LAN services, and content with converged networks, provides the widest range of interfaces and densities, from 10/100 and 10/100/1000 Ethernet to 10 Gigabit and from DS0 to OC-48, and performs in any deployment end to end

Operational Consistency in End-to-End Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Deployments

• Features 3-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis conﬁgurations that share a common set of modules, software, and network management tools

• Deploys anywhere in the network—from the wiring closet to the core, to the data center, to the WAN edge

• Shares WAN port adapters with Cisco 7xxx router Series for reduced sparing and training costs

• Offers choice of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco Catalyst Operating System Software supported on all supervisor engines, providing smooth migration from Cisco Catalyst 5000 Series and Cisco 7500 Series deployments

Maximum Network Uptime and Network Resiliency

• Provides packet-loss protection and the fastest recovery from network disruption

• Features fast, one- to three-second stateful failover between redundant supervisor engines

• Offers optional, redundant high-performance Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720, passive

backplane, multimodule Cisco EtherChannel

technology, IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation, IEEE 802.1s/w,

and Hot Standby Router Protocol/Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (HSRP/VRRP) high-availability features

Integrated High-Performance Security and Network Management

Integrated gigabit-per-second services modules, deployed where external devices would not be feasible, simplify network management and reduce total cost of ownership. These include:

• Gigabit ﬁrewall—provides access protection

• High-performance intrusion detection system (IDS)—provides intrusion detection protection

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• Gigabit Network Analysis Module—provides a more manageable infrastructure and full Remote Monitoring (RMON) support

• High-performance SSL—provides high-performance, secure e-commerce trafﬁc termination

• Gigabit VPN and standards-based IP Security (IPSec)—support lower cost Internet and intracampus connections

Content-and Application-Aware Layers 2 Through 7 Switching Services

• Integrated content switching module (CSM) brings high-performance, feature-rich server and ﬁrewall load balancing to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, ensuring a safer and more manageable infrastructure with unprecedented control

• Integrated multigigabit SSL acceleration combined with CSM provides a high-performance e-commerce solution

• Integrated multigigabit ﬁrewall and CSM provide a secure, high-performance, data-center solution

• Software features such as Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) enhance network management and control of bandwidth utilization

Scalable Performance

• Delivers the industry’s highest LAN switch performance, 400 Mpps, using the distributed Cisco Express Forwarding dCEF720 platform

• Supports a mix of Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) implementations and switch fabric speeds for optimal wiring closet, core, data center, and WAN edge deployments, as well as service provider networks

Rich Layer 3 Services

• Multiprotocol Layer 3 routing supports traditional network requirements and provides a smooth transition mechanism in the enterprise

• Provides hardware support for enterprise-class and service-provider-scale routing tables

• Provides IPv6 support in hardware (using Supervisor Engine 720) with an unparalleled high-performance suite of services

• Provides hardware support for large enterprise-class and service-provider-scale routing tables

• Provides MPLS support in hardware to enable VPN services within the enterprise and facilitate smooth integration with new high-speed service provider core infrastructures and Metro Ethernet deployments

Enhanced Data Voice, and Video Services

• Provides integrated IP communications throughout all Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series platforms

• Provides 10/100 and 10/100/1000 line cards, ﬁeld upgradable with inline power using a daughter card

• Supports Cisco pre-standard inline power as well as standards-based IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE)

• Provides dense T1/E1 and foreign Exchange Station (FXS) voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateway interfaces for public switched telephone network (PSTN) access and traditional phone, fax, and private branch exchange (PBX) connections

• Supports high-performance IP multicast video and audio applications

• Provides integrated management necessary to effectively deploy a scalable enterprise-converged network

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Highest Level of Interface Flexibility, Scalability, and Density

• Provides the port densities and interface choices that large mission-critical wiring closets, enterprise core, and distribution networks require

• Supports up to 576 10/100/1000 Gigabit-over-copper ports or 1,152 10/100 Ethernet ports

• Features the industry’s ﬁrst 96-port 10/100 RJ-45 module, with optional, ﬁeld upgradable support for

802.3af PoE

• Provides up to 192 Gigabit Ethernet ports

• Features the industry’s ﬁrst 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Channelized OC-48 dense OC-3 Packet over Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) (PoS)

• Provides investment protection by using Cisco 7xxx Series port adapters on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series FlexWAN Line Card, supporting T1/E1 through OC-48 WAN interfaces

• Chassis sizes range from 3-slot (Cisco Catalyst 6503 Switch) to 13-slot (Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch)

High-Speed WAN Interfaces

• Provides high-speed WAN, ATM, and SONET interfaces compatible with other core routers

• Provides single-device management for WAN aggregation and for campus and metro connectivity

Maximum Investment Protection

• Highly ﬂexible modular architecture supports multiple generations of modules that are fully interoperable with each other in the same chassis

• Upgradable supervisor engines can add Layer 3 routing or forwarding capabilities over time

• Cisco IOS Software and Cisco Catalyst Operating System Software are supported across all supervisor engines

• Field-upgradable inline power for 10/100 Mbps and 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet modules for “pay as you go” IP telephony and wireless computing

• A steady stream of new services modules adds to the deployment options

• Includes Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series network security, content switching, and voice capabilities

• Future modules will increase performance, port density, and include additional services

Ideal for Metro Ethernet WAN Services

• 802.1Q and 802.1Q tunneling (QinQ) providing point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet services

• EoMPLS in MPLS backbones for superior network scaling providing virtual LAN (VLAN) translation capability

• Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS enables tiered Ethernet service offerings through rate limiting and trafﬁc shaping

• Superior high-availability features include enhanced Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1w, and Cisco EtherChannel IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation

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Table 1 Catalyst 6500 Series at a Glance

Feature Catalyst 6500 Series

System Feature

Chassis Conﬁgurations 3-slot

6-slot 9-slot 9 vertical slots 13-slot

Backplane Bandwidth 32Gbps shared bus

256Gbps switch fabric 720Gbps switch fabric

L3 Forwarding Performance Supervisor 1 MSFC: 15 Mpps

Supervisor 2 MSFC: up to 210 Mpps Supervisor 720: up to 400 Mpps

Operating System Catalyst OS (CatOS)

Cisco IOS

CatOS/IOS Hybrid Conﬁguration Redundant Supervisors Yes, with stateful failover Redundant Components Power supplies (1+1)

Switch fabric (1+1)

Replaceable clock

Replaceable fan tray High Availability Features Gateway Load Balancing Protocol

Hot Standby Router Protocol

Multimodule EtherChannel

Rapid Spanning Tree

Multiple Spanning Tree

Per VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree

Rapid Convergence L3 Protocols

Maximum System Port Densities

10/100/1000 Ethernet 576 ports, all support Inline Power 10/100 Fast Ethernet 1152 ports, all support Inline Power 100-Base-FX 288 ports Gigabit Ethernet (GBIC) 194 ports (2 ports provided on supervisor engine) 10 Gigabit Ethernet (XENPAK) 32 ports

Integrated WAN Modules

FlexWAN (DS0 to OC-3) 12 modules with 24 port adapters OC-3 POS ports 192 OC-12 POS ports 48

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Table 1 Catalyst 6500 Series at a Glance (Continued)

Feature Catalyst 6500 Series

OC-12 ATM ports 24 OC-48 POS/DPT ports 24

PSTN Interfaces

Digital T1/E1 Trunk ports 216 FXS Interfaces 864 Advanced Services Modules Gigabit Firewall

Gigabit VPN

High Performance Intrusion Detection

Gigabit Content Switching Module

High Performance SSL Termination

Wireless LAN Services Module

Gigabit Content Services Gateway

DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series delivers secure converged services for campus, Internet service provider (ISP), metro edge, and research and grid computing networks.

• Campus networks—Features 10/100 and 10/100/1000 autosensing modules that provide inline power for the wiring closet, along with robust high availability, security, and manageability features; world-class networking software; high-performance Gigabit and 10 Gigabit interface modules; and network management for the distribution and core

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Deployment Scenarios for Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in Campus Networks

Core

Data

Center

Distribution

Si Si

Wiring Closet

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• ISP network—Provides robust high-availability, security, and manageability features; world-class networking software; high-performance Gigabit and 10 Gigabit interface modules; and network management for the most demanding service provider networking environments requiring Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Multicast, IP Version 6 (IPv6), an extensive set of WAN interfaces, and hierarchical trafﬁc shaping.

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Deployment Scenarios for Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in ISP Networks

Service Provider A

Si Si

Internet

Corporate WAN

Service Provider B

Si Si

• Metro edge—Features edge-, distribution-, and core-layer interfaces for point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet services for metro and inter-metro network deployments with the following features:

– High-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks – 802.1Q tunneling – Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) – Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS – Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS) compliance – Security, high availability, and manageability

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Deployment Scenarios for Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in Metro Edge

Distribution

Si Si

Access

Core

Si Si

• Grid computing network—Provides high-speed optical interface modules and world-class software required to handle high-volume trafﬁc and build and manage large-scale networks

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Deployment Scenarios for Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in Grid Computing Network

Si Si

Si Si Si Si Si

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SYSTEM OVERVIEW

Modular Architecture

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series is a modular system that can grow as customer requirements expand and technology evolves, allowing customers to upgrade and reconﬁgure systems by addingnew modules, replacingexisting modules, and adding and redeploying systems. Throughout the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, modules are:

• Conﬁgurable—Separately, simplifying the addition of new services

• Interoperable—In the same chassis, providing ﬂexible design options

• Interchangeable—Among Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series systems, simplifying sparing and network expansion

• Hot-swappable—Without requiring a chassis to be powered off, providing fast upgrade and repair

• Upgradable—As newer modules come along, providing investment protection

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Hardware-Forwarding Architectures

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series modules use one of three forwarding technologies, each having a different architecture with different characteristics and capabilities:

• Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)—Scaling to 30 Mpps, this technology uses a central CEF Cisco Express Forwarding engine located on the supervisor engine’s policy feature card (PFC) daughter and CEF forwarding tables located on the supervisor engine. The supervisor engine makes all forwarding decisions for all interface modules centrally. For more information see How Cisco Express Forwarding Works.

• Accelerated Cisco Express Forwarding (aCEF)—Suited for high-performance enterprise environments, this technology uses the aCEF engine and aCEF tables located on the interface module, along with the central CEF engine located on the supervisor engine’s PFC daughter card and central CEF forwarding tables located on the supervisor engine. The interface module makes high-volume forwarding decisions locally, and the supervisor engine makes the rest of the forwarding decisions centrally. For more information see How Accelerated Cisco

Express Forwarding (aCEF) Works.

• Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding (dCEF)—Suited for the most demanding environments, this technology uses the dCEF engine located on the interface module’sdistributed forwarding card (DFC) daughter card and the dCEF table, a local copy of the supervisor engine’s central CEF table located on the interface module’s DFC. The interface module makes all the forwarding decisions locally,andprovides maximum performance and scalability. For more information see How Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding (dCEF) Works.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switching Architectures

Cisco developed the following switching architectures for Cisco Catalyst 6500 modules to allow platforms to scale in any deployment:

• 32-Gbps bus—Allowing access to a central shared bus

• 256-Gbps switch fabric—Located on the switch fabric module (SFM)

• 720 Gbps switch fabric—Located on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720

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