Cisco WS-C3550-12G Switch Guide - Page 105

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series The flagship Catalyst switching platform offers the highest levels of application intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, non-stop communications, operational manageability, and virtualization for enterprises, medium-sized businesses, and service providers. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series continues to be the industry's most innovative switching platform, delivering the highest levels of service. The latest Supervisor 2T offers customers the latest technology for Campus core and distribution. In addition the VS-Sup720-10G also provides with Supervisor 2T, the feature-richness, density and scalability of this product line sets the standard for converged data, voice, and video networks. In addition, its flexibility enables deployments in wiring closet, campus distribution, core, data center, Internet access and WAN (Supervisor 720 only) service aggregation, environments, and enables maximum operational efficiency and investment protection through hardware and software consistency. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers integrated service modules that provide high-speed advanced services such as integrated wireless, firewalling, intrusion detection, application control, SSL termination, and network analysis services. With a choice of 3-, 4-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series scales to support the highest port densities for Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Enhanced Power over Ethernet (ePoE), PoE Plus, 10/100 Fast Ethernet and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GBE), 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 10GBase-T and DS0 to OC-192 WAN interfaces. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switch also offers the investment protection of backwards compatibility, enabling new services and functions on older line cards by simply upgrading a supervisor to the latest generation. 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 103