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The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series delivers highly
available secure converged network services for Enterprise
and Service Provider networks. Designed to address the increased
requirements for gigabit scalability, high-availability, rich
services, and multilayer switching in backbone, distribution,
and wiring closet topologies as well as datacenter environments,
the Catalyst 6500 Series delivers exceptional scalability
and price/performance, supporting a wide range of interface
densities, performance, and integration of powerful services
modules.
By combining superior control-plane and packet-forwarding
scalability with a rich set of intelligent services, the Catalyst
6500 Series delivers the foundation for new-world Enterprise
and Service Provider solutions, such as converged voice/video/data
and e-commerce services.
The recommended Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series switches offer many benefits, including:
- Unparalleled services integration
- Advanced wire-rate quality of service (QoS) and access
control list (ACL) policy management
- Layer 3-7 switching capabilities, including the industry's
highest-performance server load-balancing solution
- Integrated services module support, including intrusion
detection, firewall, VPN, SSL and network analysis modules
- IP telephony support including high-density voice gateway
(PSTN/PBX) and traditional FXS (phone/fax machine) options
- Comprehensive network security with integrated multi-gigabit
security modules
- Investment protection and long product life cycle
- Scalable high-performance switching with a 256-Gbps switching
fabric currently delivering up to 210 Mpps
- Port densities from 48 to 576 10/100 and 194 Gigabit Ethernet
ports
- Flexible uplink options from T1/E1 to OC-48 optical services
modules
- Shared WAN module support using Cisco 7000 Series WAN
port adapters
- Operational consistency
- Complete Catalyst Operating System (CatOS) support across
all supervisors for ease of migration using the CatOS command-line
interface
- Complete Cisco IOS® Software support across all supervisors
for end-to-end Cisco router and switch operation
- 3-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis configurations sharing
a common set of modules, software, and network management
tools
- One platform can be deployed anywhere in the network.
- Maximum network uptime with the highest level of availability,
including 2- to 3-second stateful failover of redundant
supervisors and service module
For more information about Cisco's 6500 series, email sales@cisilion.com
or phone us on +44 (0)870 15 25 750
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