Scale, Virtualize, and Manage Your Network

Latest Innovations

• Next-Generation Supervisor 2T Scales to 2-Terabit Switching
• Borderless Service Node: Advanced Switching, Wireless, and Security

Efficiently scale, virtualize, secure, and manage your network remotely with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches. Offering a high-performance, feature-rich platform suitable for deployment in campus, data center, WAN, and Metro Ethernet networks, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series provides a strong foundation for Borderless Networks, so you can connect anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Scale Performance and Network Services

• 2 terabits per second (Tbps) fabric delivers 80 Gbps switching capacity per slot and scales to 4 Tbps system capacity with Cisco Catalyst Virtual Switching System (VSS)
• 40G-capable system supports up to 360 10G ports and 1068 1G ports per VSS system
• Supervisor Engine 2T supports up to 720 mpps of IPv4 and 390 mpps of IPv6
• Provides large table sizes for scalable deployment with protected control plane.

Virtual Switching System

• Activates all available bandwidth across redundant Catalyst 6500 systems and eliminates assymmetric routing
• Supports interchassis stateful failover and provides deterministic subsecond recovery
• Provides single point of management
• Eliminates need for First-Hop Resiliency Protocol (FHRP), supports simplified loop-free topologies

Network Virtualization

• Offers infrastructure consolidation by providing segmentation, path isolation, privacy, limited fate sharing, membership definition, and address space separation technologies
• Delivers end-to-end network virtualization using IP/MPLS technologies.

Security

• Identifies (802.1x suite) , tags (SGT), encrypts (MacSec), and enforces (Security Group Access Control List) with Cisco TrustSec
• Supports network device admission control (NDAC) and endpoint admission control (EAC)
• Provides investment protection with ingress/egress TrustSec Reflector

Integrates Services and Operational Efficiency

• Helps unify, simplify, and economize your network with next-generation integrated services modules
• Facilitates multiple generations of components on one chassis through a modular design
• Monitors switches across the network with Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)/Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN) and virtually connects an analyzer to almost any port on the network with Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)
• Provides application visibility through flexible, egress, sampled Netflow, and CPU Preserving Netflow Export
• Offers image recovery and console logging through the Connectivity Management Processor (CMP)
• Delivers onboard packet capture with Mini Port Analyzer

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