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• CISPR 22
• AS/NZS 3548
• NEBS Level 3 (GR-1089-CORE, GR-63-CORE)
• ETSI ETS-300386-2
SPECIFICATIONS
Table 10 provides an overview of Catalyst 6500 Series switches specifications, additional information can be found
in software release notes.
Table 10 Catalyst 6500 Series Specifications
Specification Number Description
IEEE Compliance
802.1 802.1d
802.1p, q
802.1s
802.1w
802.1x
Bridging
VLAN tagging
Per-VLAN Group Spanning Tree Protocol
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
802.1 802.3 10BASE-T, 10BASE-FL
802.3ad
802.3ab
802.3ae
802.3af
802.3u
Link aggregation
1000BASE-T
10 Gigabit Ethernet
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX
802.3x Flow control
802.3z 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX
RFC Compliance
ATM 1483, 2584 Protocol encapsulation over ATM AAL-5
ATM permanent virtual circuit (PVC) to 802.1q tagging
BGP4 1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol (Version 3)
1745 Border Gateway Protocol/Open Shortest Path First (BGP/OSPF) interactions
1771 BGPv4
1965 BGP4 autonomous system confederations
1966 BGP4 route reflection
1997 Communities attribute
2385 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) MD5 authentication for BGP
2439 Route flap dampening
2796 Route reflection