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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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